It depends very much on your current scope of influence. It can be hard to change a whole company, but easier to start with yourself and your team. Try doing one and see how it is received.
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Do similar planning laws exist in other countries?
This API is designed for business payments. Companies that process tens, if not hundreds of thousands of payments on a monthly basis. Think about the companies that sit behind businesses like Etsy or Uber - they need to take a lot of payments from customers and pay the supplier.
Many of those payment companies are financial institutions themselves who probably already have some kind of connection to programs like Visa.
I've been to two other hackathons that are focused on attracting girls and women into the STEM arena (http://www.stemettes.org/events) but they don't exclude guys. The idea is more around splitting the participants into groups of different ability and helping them build something. I really enjoyed that the event is about learning/mentoring more than about wining prizes and I found it really rewarding to help kids that had some interest in coding.
The events are quite different from the 48 hour hacks because they are also catering for 6 year olds with short attention spans, but it felt like I was helping to show that coding is accessible to anyone of any age.
If you're a coder in London I highly recommend volunteering with them.
* If I buy from a non-USA based site, how are the customs charges handled when the items arrives at your warehouse?
* How will you handle returns if the item is defective or damaged?
I thought I didn't need a degree but then met people in the industry that I wanted to be like, but I was limited by not having a degree.
It wasn't possible for me to study full time and I didn't really want to as I wanted to continue to have my years of work experience growing, so I signed up for a part time course.
Two years before my degree was finished I was nearly passed over on a job because I didn't have a degree so it really encouraged me to get it finished.
With the last round of job interviews there are many that said I would not be being considered without the degree.
If I were back in that same position again, I'd choose to do it the same way. Your relevant work experience keeps growing but you still get a degree - it's hard work and long hours but I think it was worthwhile.
* Where possible convert time into money.
* If it costs a lot of money, tell them how long it will take to recoup the investment.
* Give numbers.
* It is possible that your boss does not control the purse strings - so when you give your numbers make sure it's in a format that they can forward to their boss with few changes
What do you think is the developer / programmer equivalent of CV's like this?
There are two drivers for this that I've seen. Either bookmarking clothes to build up a look that they will then go and buy, or bookmarking clothes to buy once they go on sale.
One of the things I struggle with buying clothes online is being able to look at all the things I like on the same screen and then decide what I will buy. (H+M does this well). Some retailers limit the baskets to 10 items (Next used to) so even though I'll only buy a few in the end, the only other way to compare items is to open lots of tabs. This doesn't work at all when it's a flash based store. (Esprit.com suffers from this) So I use pinterest for this.
The other time I pin products is when I want comment from other people. I'd rather have these comments on Pinterest than on Facebook.
One thing that would make me pin products more would be if I could make a board private. Then I would pin ideas for Birthday presents and I would have used it to pin ideas for wedding dresses. But private boards are not what they're aiming for and doesn't fit into the context of the article either I guess.
2. The focus on not killing your human face sounds wrong. If you turned the sentence around it would come across as more positive - "Promote your human face" perhaps?
Apart from RSI relief I find it has also increased my typing speed.
If your mom knows where the demand was inside that agency then she should draw from that when creating her own company. Perhaps business trips were the main thing they booked? Or young adult tour style trips? If she could focus on what was still selling maybe that is a way to go forward.
Does she still want to be a travel agent or is she looking to do something completely different?
Some comments
* I'm not sure if the word 'foodie' is well known
* I agree with the comment of the default fridge item - it's too busy
* There are not enough recipies / foodies per page because the icons are so big. On a big screen they are a little overwhelming.
* The grey / black main colour on the interface doesn't seem appetizing. Might be worthwhile experimenting with a few colours?
* I love the layout of the ingredients - very easy to read.
* I get question mark characters instead of the degree symbol.
* I see on the Homemade Chocolate Goodness Part 1 that there is a comment (which I assume is you) to allow ingredients to be listed in sections - I think this is a very important feature because it makes complicated recipes easier to read
* You have some escaping going on for user with profile 38 in the panel opposite the picture. See "At the end of the day"
* Perhaps give foodies the ability to not show the preparation column in the ingredients list as not very many of them use it - or else if there are no entries then don't render that column.
* The tags (main tag list) are difficult to read because they are alphabetical horizontally and not vertically
* Would be great to be able to search recipes by preparation time
I really like this site - definitely going to sign up and browse further! If I find anything else I'll comment again :)
Looks like a pretty good idea though :) Good luck with it!
It doesn't teach you a variety of languages or the language that you hope to work with professionally. It doesn't teach you about version control or how to work with legacy code.
I decided to get a degree because it would make be a better programmer and hopefully that has happened. But it wasn't going to a university that taught me how to get stuff done in a language I like.
For reference: I have been in the programming industry for seven years and only this year will I finish my degree (been studying part time).
1) no download, no registration - but I still have to enter a username and password. So I don't understand why you say 'no registration' when I still have to register a username
2) there is no compelling reason for me to install this - it took a while to find this which I guess is the main reason I would install it: 'Synchronized: Access Dashler from any computer and browser.'
3) When I clicked on 'Home' I expected to go to http://www.dashler.com/toolbar/ - I did not realise that the toolbar was not the main thing about Dashler. Then it also took me a while to work out how to get back to the toolbar page again.
4) I agree with a previous poster that I would have loved to see screenshots as I can't view videos at work
Lastly - looks like fun and an interesting idea, but it's not completely clear to me why I should want it. Perhaps you need to make that more clear on the front page.
2) if users have the ability to add their own items to the list, you are going to need a way to monitor the lists for duplicates or items that are not specific enough - (example, iPhone) or items that are wrong (iPhone Blackberry). Since you are starting with a clean slate in terms of products, it will be most useful to you to ensure that the product names are kept as clean as possible, this will make it MUCH easier to integrate with a price service if you plan to monetize it that way in future.
3) I'm not sure what the 'revisions' button is supposed to do (not technically, I mean in terms of usefulness to the site). I was able to rollback someone else's review to a previous version.
4) Product lists can grow to be quite diverse and you will need a way to categorize the lists the same way that products are grouped into lists. For example, you may need an Electronics category where all PC's, cell phones and GPS's are listed. And futher on you may need to break the cell phone category into 'Smart Phones' and 'Cell Phones'. Advice for this is that if you do plan to monetize by connecting with a price service then map your categories to that of the price service because it will be easier to sync up your products later (unless they really don't match your categorization in which case you will need a way to match them up behind the scenes.)
5) Don't know how you would approach this one, but when I went to 'Blogs for Entrepeneurs' and clicked on 'Paul Grahams Blog' I could see that the response was positive so I would want to check out this blog. If I didn't know who Paul Graham was I would need to then google his name to find his blog. It would be nice for items like that if the person who creates the item could add some text or blurb about it. But I'm not sure how that would translate when adding an actual product that is not a blog.
Hope that was useful :) Good luck with it!
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