RowanH

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by RowanH 2mo ago
We're getting taken to the cleaners in NZ!! I think it's $50 for a westpac chopper ride...
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by RowanH 7mo ago
They've done something with the printer system in Tahoe. Brother removed support for native drivers on certain label printers on Tahoe (!!!) when you go searching you find other printer issues. Like, why. Why would you need to change t
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by RowanH 8mo ago
Yes. Queens English countries it's the phrase used (New Zealand - that's what we use).
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by RowanH 1y ago
I don't know. Certainly the frequency and severity is just eye opening. We had 2 1 in 50's with 1 in 100 in 3 weeks (!!!). I know you guys have also had it bad over there. I expect the insurance companies will start removing flood
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by RowanH 1y ago
Chunks of NZ are becoming very expensive to uninsurable, and extreme impact weather events are getting more frequent. It would be fair say a good portion of the population don't understand the maths of a weather event just how astronom
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by RowanH 1y ago
In New Zealand we have an absolutely shit employment law process where the company has to 'propose' a restructure (in a formal fashion). Then 'consult' with employees for feedback. Then 'consider' the feedback.
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by RowanH 1y ago
To be fair EV's can have some very high initial torque delivery, and are heavy = tyre shredding beasts. I know I know, people aren't supposed to be taking off from every light at full chat, but, given the capability some people ca
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by RowanH 1y ago
> Something about the side hustle continues to lure people into thinking it’s a way out, until they burn themselves out and sabotage their day job while doing it. Sample size of 1 - Side hustle #1 funded my toy habit for a long time and
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by RowanH 1y ago
Oooo thank you for mentioning that. Looks quite feature rich !
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by RowanH 2y ago
How does Anrok charge? is it based on a per filing basis or %age of rev? If %age can you share broadly speaking what it costs?
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by RowanH 2y ago
Fascinating. I'm wondering how the app manages to control notification behaviour & gatekeeps other apps. Obviously the APIs to do it must be there, just surprised Apple (of all ...) let's a 3rd party app do that.. Neat idea
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by RowanH 2y ago
Echoing this, loved the product feature callout diagram. Immediately 'view source' to figure out how it was done.
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by RowanH 2y ago
In New Zealand we're very much natural disaster prone. I run a SaaS working out of home - we wired the house for generator backup and have a starlink unit that sits in a box exactly for this reason, even if the proverbial hits the fan
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by RowanH 2y ago
After this I imagine there will be an option "do you want updates immediately, or updates when released - n, or n+2, n+6, n+24, n+48 hrs?" Given the choice I bet there's going to be surprisingly large number of orgs go "
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by RowanH 2y ago
That's a high bar - in my experience (New Zealand) 1/3 of candidates can't even write any form of code to retrieve a random element from an array. 1/3 have to be nudged along and asked some leading questions, and 1/
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by RowanH 2y ago
The PT-P models (we've got and a lot of our clients use the PT-P900W) - it does a very nifty "half cut" on laminated tape labels that makes it super easy to peel and stick. Love the API it has, aside from some quirks - we can
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by RowanH 2y ago
I run one but I don't runn one - I've met the other Rowan
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by RowanH 2y ago
Another (recently former!) Jafa. Possibly crossed paths also, given how many years in the industry :)
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by RowanH 2y ago
Wow so you work at CDK. I wouldn't wish the sh-t storm you guys must be going through on our worst enemy. I was talking with one of your clients today (we're not competitors) and you just don't realise how far screwed some of
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by RowanH 2y ago
Close to this market - ShopMonkey is doing it for general garage work, and we, GlobalWorkshop, are doing it for high end/custom vehicles (restoration/restomods/small motorsport teams). I'm pretty sure one of our recent t
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by RowanH 2y ago
30+ years in the software industry. Everyone did this back in the day - then it changed for 3 reasons (1) completely unsustainable (2) people didn't upgrade, or being forced to upgrade and pay large prices got grumpy about it. (3) the
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by RowanH 2y ago
We just had ANZAC day in NZ [commemorating WWI/battle of gallipoli). A bunch of (I'm guessing younger people) are getting up in arms that it's glorification of war and whataboutism on other things going on the world "why
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by RowanH 2y ago
I was on a 32in 5k ultrawide.. trying out a 42 4k oled just now. My eyes are thanking me for the bigger screen realestate, but I did get used to the wideness of the UltraWide. Definitely better to go massive single in my view. That OLED vid
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by RowanH 2y ago
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by RowanH 2y ago
> Because Ruby and especially RoR is a strict downgrade in every dimension compared to .NET. And that line of thinking is damaging in the tech world. There is no one ring to rule them all. Each tool, language, framework has a place - eve
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by RowanH 2y ago
While certainly a little polarising the adage of optimise later really comes into play here. We do a lightweight industry specific system that had all the generic stuff (eg time/tasks etc) with some special sauce that makes us stand ou
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by RowanH 2y ago
Thanks! Definitely aiming to try them out
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by RowanH 2y ago
I would imagine with cutbacks on spending/investing I think people getting leaner and meaner will re-visit the sheer productivity you can get out of it. Sure shaving the last 10/10ths of having a SPA with simple API based back end
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by RowanH 2y ago
Not saying whether it’s good or bad, just the obvious bit left out. Does really show that UBI discussion needs to be had sooner rather than later …
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by RowanH 2y ago
> has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company. "While systematically removing the unskilled job categories at the company" The robot missed out that sentence for some reason.

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