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jamesdelaneyie

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About jamesdelaneyie

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    Comment #48119520

    Could be that you have four councils: Dublin City Council, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, South Dublin, and Fingal

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    Comment #47141801

    In the EU and had to switch from Stripe to Mollie due to Stripe thinking the client was a cruise company because they rent 'cruiser' boats for river leisure. Mollie was super easy …

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    Comment #46799966

    I didn't know /imagine could be followed by a prompt, but similarly I asked the avatar about it's appearance and stated it had none. Should probably give it the context of what it'…

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    Comment #36436935

    Your goal during the ideation phase of those workshops should be to output as many post its as possible in the given time. Output the bad ideas quickly and you'll move along to bet…

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    Comment #32212710

    You mean this case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau... Where a 79 year old woman suffered 3rd degree burns to her pelvic region after spilling coffee i…

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    Comment #12869218

    This is true, they don't understand how 5+ fonts make it hard to load and render. But they do care about bandied about stats like 83% of people will leave a site if it doesn't load…

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    Comment #12869166

    >I absolutely do not understand the need for 'web fonts'. Just specify a normal font that most users already have installed in CSS, with some fallbacks. I suppose some people are h…

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    Comment #12778730

    Rent increases can only be performed every two years in Ireland from Dec 2015. And you must have 90 days notice of a rent increase. More info on this link: http://www.citizensinfor…

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    Comment #12654554

    Low effort comment, but simply put: Design.

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    Comment #11666780

    >I wasn't in trouble and I knew it. A great feeling to have. I remember a similar teacher who could probably account for the death of ten trees every class with the reams of worksh…

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    Comment #11607209

    Google maps also changes the zoom level to the nearest integer. You can't do 12.5 for example. When I change the 10 on the google maps link in your comment to 10.5, it rounds it ba…

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    Comment #11582660

    He recently spoke at OFFSET in Dublin and went through about 900 slides in 30 mins. Mad man. His early flash work was very cool to see as well.

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    Comment #11483855

    Interesting video. You might find this account of a debate (that happened the same year as that BBC doc) interesting as well. Roger participated in it. http://www.theguardian.com/a…

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    Comment #11258918

    I'd be looking at your diet and eating times if you're getting the '3 o'clock slump' and need a snooze during the day.

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    Comment #11064170

    Something not mentioned here is their 'big push' into Design Thinking. IBM have snapped up ~14+ of the graduates from my college course (Visual Communications, IADT, Dublin) flown …

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    Comment #10865922

    Someone keep this cat off my desk and lap somehow. Actually just desk. Lap is ok.

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    Comment #10728004

    >It worked best by "switching off the screen", i.e. typing without seeing what you type (either by literally switching off the screen, or by putting the font to same color as backg…

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    Comment #10706341

    I invoice that as 'tech management' and charge an hourly rate for it. I would not put it in my portfolio but if the jobs goes well I would get a testimonial from the client.

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    Comment #10705892

    1. Take who the client is, think about how much I like the job, how technically hard it is, how long I'd be at it and the deadline they want and a few other variables then pick a f…

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    Comment #10654879

    definitely recommend waveapps.com in that case. Free plan and no limit on number of customers or invoices, does receipts and links to your bank account, pretty much everything you …

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    Comment #10618207

    I would say you'll do fine. To start out, you might have to do what Dubliners call, "Nixers". That is to say, a cash in hand payment for a small touchup sort of job. Dublin has a p…

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    Comment #10185732

    The Sims.

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    Comment #10089294

    I used to hate the whole shave kb off a file stuff (its 2015! we'll have superdooper speeds in 5 years!) until someone added up the hardware usage overall worldwide and it made a b…