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I digitalized Berlin's registration form

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Re: I digitalized Berlin's registration form

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

kelnos wrote: post #127
TheHappyOddish wrote: post #72

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Even better are the ones where you pick your country and the 'state' dropdown is still US states and 'Other', and you're prompted for a 'zip code'. What does American mail have to do with a zip anyway?

Not sure if your question is flippant/rhetorical, but in case you're genuinely curious: ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan, the initiative that set up the "postal codes" that we call ZIP codes. I don't quite recall, but I think ZIP may actually be a backronym; in US English, "zip" is a word that also means "to move quickly", and they wanted to evoke a feeling that postal mail gets delivered faster when you include…

Hey thanks, I was being a bit flippant, but I was not aware of that. That's very interesting!

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Post by 4m1rk »

golergka wrote: post #284
pzduniak wrote: post #252

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Perhaps you're comparing _good_ engineers. That's not who we're talking about here :) There's tens of thousands of fresh IT graduates working 2.5k EUR/mo jobs (or less) - and you can replace any engineer with a finite amount of these guys.

> There's tens of thousands of fresh IT graduates working 2.5k EUR/mo jobs (or less) That's a senior developer salary in Portugal (in Farfetch, no less).

This branch of thread is sad. For everyone.

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Post by helboi4 »

golergka wrote: post #284
pzduniak wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps you're comparing _good_ engineers. That's not who we're talking about here :) There's tens of thousands of fresh IT graduates working 2.5k EUR/mo jobs (or less) - and you can replace any engineer with a finite amount of these guys.

> There's tens of thousands of fresh IT graduates working 2.5k EUR/mo jobs (or less) That's a senior developer salary in Portugal (in Farfetch, no less).

I was definitely getting less than that in my first year in the UK. That was because of being scammed by a bootcamp tho haha. In my second year I make moderately more than that

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Post by helboi4 »

TheHappyOddish wrote: post #72
melx wrote: post #10

Kudos on the nice UX for dropdown with countries. I wish more websites do it. Usually, it's "United States" at the very top, and 194 other countries in a loooooong list.

Even better are the ones where you pick your country and the 'state' dropdown is still US states and 'Other', and you're prompted for a 'zip code'. What does American mail have to do with a zip anyway?

Ooo yes there's nothing I hate more than an address form for a business that clearly works internationally being only really compatible with US addresses. My "state"? At least Germany or something has states the UK does not. My "city"? In the UK cities and towns are distinct and I am from a town. I have very occasionally actually then not been able to proceed because someone has not actually configured the "zip code" field to accept postal codes that include letters.

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Post by gwright »

jupp0r wrote: post #310
gwright wrote: post #300

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OK, I'm not sure I would describe that phenomena as an "equality principle" though. That is just a misleading label for a misguided bureaucratic rule.

Sorry for the confusion. Not a native english speaker here (although I've been living in the US for a few years).

Don't feel bad. Native-born Americans are having a hard time agreeing on what words like "equality" mean these days...

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Post by throwaway_no »

flurdy wrote: post #143
throwaway_no wrote: post #93

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> I am certain had it been shipped the other way the post office in Norway would have rejected it immediately for not being 100% by-the-book. The postal office in Norway tries hard to deliver to the correct destination. I've heard of similar stories where they only had a name and a city to go on, and it was delivered at the correct location. During Christmas, they even have a team of dedicated "detectives" who tries…

Maybe, but Norway do make it harder for themselves by having just a 4 number postcode that could include many thousands of addresses. A UK postcode is often down to just one street or similar size. Once, someone I knew in Norway (ok, my sister again...) somehow managed to combine her old and new address when ordering something online. And that parcel back and forth between 2 cities for a long time... :)

I grew up in the country side of Norway in the 80s, and the small road to my house didn't have any name. I guess there was no need since that road serviced less than 10 houses. It wasn't until later (late 80s perhaps) when my road was given a name and my house was assigned a number.

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Post by guyonthewall »

flurdy wrote: post #67
FearNotDaniel wrote: post #23

> German apartments don’t have apartment numbers. If your name is not on your mailbox, postal workers can’t deliver your mail. This can also cause delivery failures the other way around - a friend in Germany once sent me a package but didn't bother writing the apartment number on it because she assumed the postman would use my name to find the right box. Instead it got sent right back to Germany. (Austrian bureaucrac…

My sister sent a parcel this week with presents for my daughter's birthday (Happy birthday Ruby!), from Norway to the UK. She filled in all the spoiler customs parts but must have gotten stressed and completely forgot to write our street name and house number. Just my name, post code and country. 3 days later our postie knocked on our door and asked if this parcel was for us! We don't live in a big city but still it…

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Post by sagarm »

melx wrote: post #10

Kudos on the nice UX for dropdown with countries. I wish more websites do it. Usually, it's "United States" at the very top, and 194 other countries in a loooooong list.

You know you can type the first few letters of the entry you're looking for while the drop-down is open right?
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