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I'm so very proud to have been involved in this in a small way. I work for realestate.com.au (REA Group), and we've been involved for around 2 years now in one way or another. This has included an REA employee joining the project for a year, and further back a development team of 6 spending a full month working on the front end. If anyone is interested Malcolm Turnbull's speech from the launch is here: https://www.pm…
edit: to downvoters, I'm not trying to be funny here, surely that's potentially useful feedback?
Tested in Adelaide and after a couple of local results for my fake criteria, it listed shelters interstate, 6-11 days walk away. Maybe don't show those or separate them obviously so they don't confuse anyone. Or offer an "if all else fails" hotline number at the bottom of the results (even if you have one shown at the top). Great initiative though.
Main dev on the project here (I work for rea-group.com who run www.realestate.com.au, but they've given me a years secondment to the project). Back in 2013 a team at our hackday implemented the precursor to this app, and the leadership team were super impressed. It's been amazing working so closely with the sector (we meet/do user testing with representatives from lots of organisations). This is my first project with…
It's been fantastic having Daniel on board for this and really great of REA to help with resourcing the project.
Maybe it's just me, but I first read the name as "ass-kissing" - intentional? edit: to downvoters, I'm not trying to be funny here, surely that's potentially useful feedback?
A lot of effort and consultation with a number of groups (including end users) went into choosing the name. Turns out, naming things is surprisingly hard!
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It's been fantastic having Daniel on board for this and really great of REA to help with resourcing the project.
This is an amazing and inspiring initiative and I wish I'd been involved somehow. I'm not sure whereabouts in Australia you're based, but if you're in Sydney I'd love to buy you both a beer :).
Maybe it's just me, but I first read the name as "ass-kissing" - intentional? edit: to downvoters, I'm not trying to be funny here, surely that's potentially useful feedback?
Thanks for the feedback, definitely not intentional :) A lot of effort and consultation with a number of groups (including end users) went into choosing the name. Turns out, naming things is surprisingly hard!
-- Phil Karlton
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Thanks for the feedback, definitely not intentional :) A lot of effort and consultation with a number of groups (including end users) went into choosing the name. Turns out, naming things is surprisingly hard!
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton
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No, I get that. What i was pointing out was that once it had a location, I couldn't change it (it never asked me again).
Hey jacalata, thanks for pointing this out. I've reproduced the issue as best I can, and AFAICT you should see a link on that page which says "Change you answers". Clicking it should display a list of the answers you've chosen, and the top one should be your location. Clicking that should let you change your location. If that doesn't work, drop me a line at jcrompton@infoxchange.org -- I'd love to get enough info fro…