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Damn, I've been guilty of confirmation bias and looking for the answer I want without realizing it, but to be doing it willfully is mildly shocking to see.

Thanks! Can't wait to dive in

Cool, I'll have to look into both! Huawei feels like an "Oh, right, of course" answer but Polycom doesn't ring any bells.

Interesting observation on the soft phones trend, though. In my work environment our Cisco phones might as well be softphones since everything's rigged through Jabber. Give us a webcam instead of the desk phone and I don't see any loss of functionality.

Thanks for the link! I'm low on the totem pole with these sort of decisions, but I'll be sure to keep this bookmarked for any future meeting or opportunity to pivot away from Cisco :)

While things like Jabber have an obvious alternative (i.e. Slack), who can compete with Cisco in terms of their desk phones and meeting room equipment? I only ask because their hardware is so ingrained in the company I work for that even if I were somehow able to convince everyone that Slack was worth switching for, who the hell else am I gonna get video conferencing equipment like this[0] from?

[0]http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaborati...

Yeah, even if you argue that the sideloaded app stores and whatnot that you could put on a jailbroken iPod Touch (remember those?) and 1st gen iPhones existed for a little before the official App Store, it was hardly the experience people think of today when talking about apps.

That's kinda disingenuous and you know it. From the previous discussion[0], you should know not to take one side of the story at face value.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194

Is Microsoft still putting that much effort into IE? I thought they were transitioning to Edge. Regardless, I'm in the same boat as you. I have to target IE11, and my friend got me really hyped about flexbox until the cross-browser support came to light.

Sounds like FB isn't the platform for the people you interact with, then. As per another poster's comments, I just keep people I actually give a shit about unhidden. I care about what they're up to, so their content matters to me. Your point feels like it boils down to "There's no one in my life that's also on facebook that makes a post that matters to me, nor are there any special interests or groups that are worth following".

And at that point I'm not really sure it's a problem with facebook, or a problem at all, but moreso you not being the target user.

In your defense, the Spotify app is a mess and it seems like they're adjusting their own UI enough to suggest that they don't quite have usability down quite yet. Don't get me started on how often it hangs or crashes, or how the timing is eerily close to when it tries to transition into/out of ads...

Snapchat just has a bad habit of introducing a feature you need to perform a gesture for and only telling you once and nowhere else.

I wouldn't blame your age on it, I just don't think a lot of these popular apps have particularly good design but get by because the service is solid and hits "good enough" for your average (usually non-technical) user.

As someone with the label "Application Developer" who's been having to develop and deploy and learn my company's entire backend without much help other than "oh, here's the username/password for that, here ya go" from my superiors in IT, I don't know what to think of this.

The servers and databases are all managed by my one boss, but I'm basically now responsible for every aspect of my application's lifecycle. While I'm a 1-man team now, I know down the line we're looking to expand and I'm trying to set things up right for when that day comes - proper version control, and an automated way to push updates to my Django app.

I was looking at Docker and the likes, but we're unfortunately running Microsoft SQL Servers and Windows Servers which apparently aren't going to see much support for virtualization/containers til the SQL Server 2016 version comes out. My company is an engineering firm, not tech, so paying for an AWS bucket or me making a case to get the fuck away from Microsoft backend stuff (the headaches I've had with MS SQL already...), etc etc probably isn't high on their to-do list.

Maybe due to the sort of company I work for this article just doesn't apply to me anyway, but it seems like the author assumes any company rolling out software or a service is doing so at the cutting edge and as its primary focus.

I'm not sure my struggle to find a sane way to automate our deployment and updates would be helped too much by literally any of the cloud based services anyway. Even if they gave me a green light to go all-out on whatever service I wanted to use, at the end of the day I'd also have to manage all of those services and their connections to the app as well. I'm trading off some work for another kind, and a lot of these cloud solutions are hardly painless.

My Counter-Strike addiction would like a word with you.

Although Linux support has been getting a lot better for gaming, admittedly.

Sorry for the late reply, but thanks for the feedback. While I believe I have a decently strong variety between my passwords, I'm looking at Keepass now and it looks like the exact password manager tool I've wanted for a while now so I'll be giving it a try.

Is there really anything I can do other than update passwords regularly if my email address has been compromised? Apparently I was hit by the Adobe and Bitcoin forum dump. I (think) I create new passwords and change old account passwords often enough and I think literally the only time I've gotten "hacked" was an old XBOX Live account and Origin, and most accounts I care about nowadays also feature 2-Factor Authentication.

So while I'd be more pleased if Adobe hadn't leaked my email, I'm not really at risk continuing use of the email address as long as I'm on top of my passwords, right?

So no matter what evidence he shows to the contrary, you won't believe it because you can't trust anything. Except the pieces of info that agree with your theory. Gotcha.

Huh, TIL. Thanks!

Apple Pay and TouchID? Come on now, at least retina displays and Force Touch are good examples, but Apple certainly wasn't the first to implement eWallets or fingerprints linked to your ID.

And while I'll concede that things like their cameras are great, the only reason certain things like performance and battery life are what they are is because they control iOS AND all of the hardware running it. And app development on iOS has just as many pros and cons as developing for Android, I don't think it fair to label one as better in that regard.

My old manager did this kind of shit to female coworkers all the time. He'd insist they put "earmuffs" on if he was going to say something he thought was too dirty/inappropriate/whatever. He was a sexist piece of garbage anyway, but he didn't see how condescending and annoying it was for the women.

He did the same thing to female sales reps - insisted we give them extra help above and beyond what he'd want us to do for men. Very glad I got out of retail hell.

Great, thanks for the reply. Can't wait to give the demo a run :)

Absolutely! Thanks for the reply

I'm currently tasked with creating a new version of my company's Intranet system and have been looking into the different CMS options out there and talking over choices like SharePoint and OpenAtrium with my co-worker.

Would you recommend DjangoCMS for an Intranet? I'm planning to implement collaborative content tools and a company wiki (probably going with MediaWiki) on top of keeping features we've already got, and the only external applications we deal with are ADP and BST.

I'm a LOT more familiar with Python than I am PHP, so finding a framework I can hit the ground running with would be huge. Thanks!