It's Angular 1.4 at the moment - the project was started well before A2 had anything like a coherent direction for its API. Releasing an Angular 2-compatible version is one of our top priorities for the next surge of development.
That said, Xing uses Hannah Howard's module A1Atscript (https://github.com/hannahhoward/a1atscript) to add a very Angular 2-like TypeScript annotation syntax, including A2-like component architecture.
That should make Xing apps much easier to translate to Angular 2 than other Angular 1.X apps.
As a project manager, I've used this in two projects over the last year (of four done through our company). If you have questions or thoughts I'm here to help.
What I really want to see is Gigster's contract. What terms do they make their clients sign?
To do any kind of fixed-price work, you need absolutely ironclad protection against scope creep. Said protection against scope creep usually must start with an extremely detailed specification - the kind of thing that takes weeks to develop, not a 10-minute phone call.
I would imagine Gigster's terms looks something like:
• Client gets no input beyond the 10-minute phone call
• Interpretation of the specifications given in that phone call is 100% up to Gigster
• Any revision of specifications whatsoever results in a change order
I've built or managed the teams that built over 50 software projects, ranging from small up to about half a million dollars.
With all that experience, my estimate process is now extremely honed. It takes me, quite consistently, 4 to 8 hours for a typical web startup MVP. And that's assuming I can build the product completely with technologies my team has used before.
... and predictably, the first comment proves her point.
You see two or three examples of comments in the article, and feel comfortable dismissing her point entirely as a result. But of course a written article has only room for two or three examples.
She wouldn't have written it if there weren't an absolute nonstop stream of this sort of crap over the course of years. A point she made abundantly clear, and an experience that would be oppressive to anyone.
(Not to mention the numerous things that can't possibly be read as "nice or funny", like having all your contributions ignored in favor of equivalent contributions from men. That makes me wonder if you actually read most of the article, or just skimmed and cherry picked a couple things that left you feeling justified in dismissing her.)
When you learn to listen to people who are struggling instead of dismissing them, your life will be better. I promise.
It isn't "political correctness" - the phrase implies that the language has no real effect and changing it is merely for show, or as a political statement.
Using male pronouns as gender neutral has a measurable effect on comprehension that has studied and reproduced repeatedly. Using "he" pronouns as generics does in fact lead both men and women to exclude women in their comprehension of the sentence a statistically significant fraction of the time. See for example http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27784423?uid=2&uid=4&s....
Revising language not a "thought barrier", it's an actual real benefit.
He's been mendacious as all of them, sure. That's not the important difference.
The important difference is that there are now millions of black American kids no longer growing up in a world where they just "know" as a first principle that "black people can't be president". That sort of example simply changes people's outlook. Inspiration and aspiration matter.
OTOH, I've experienced a lot of people who know basic computer science but don't grasp any software engineering. Nor do they even realize that it's a thing.
Those sorts of people tend to be very focussed on clever algorithms and data structures, and frequently miss the larger picture and coding best practices. I've seen far too much code that had extensive CS cleverness at the root but was spaghettified, untested, undocumented, poorly performant, and not even tracked in a version control system. Such people often don't value writing code that other developers can read and maintain. On a team, clarity matters more than cleverness.
Um... answer's right there. Indeed this was the case on the African savannah, pre-agriculture.
We're no longer living in that environment. In the 21st century it's trivial to get sufficient calories, vitamins, and a balanced diet without eating meat.
Other points about our environment: (1) Relative to the African savannah, most of us burn many fewer calories per day. Fat asses in front of a computer instead of chasing down antelope, yanno. (2) We live 3x as long now, so our health concerns are different. That high-calorie blob of fat is tasty because it meant not freezing to death at age 16 and hence those taste buds were strongly selected for. Today we don't have that concern, and all those fat blobs may mean living to 60 instead of 80.
The survival needs of proto-humans on the savannah 100kya are not a very good guide to nutrition and health in the 21st century.
Gorgeous - but I've never had nausea come on so fast while playing a game. Most games, 3 or 4+ hours will trigger a migraine and nausea. This one ... maybe 10 minutes.
Wharrgarbl. Economists frequently state this as a fact, with zero recourse to empirical analysis.
It's a theoretical statement based on microeconomic reasoning which itself has flawed assumptions (assumptions like "people make rational economic decisions" and "consumers and employees are well-informed about their options). The econ 101 supply and demand model is an extremely poor model of most real-world economic systems, employment included.
When it hits the real world and a standard of evidence, it doesn't hold up. The wealthiest countries in the world with the highest employment rates and the lowest poverty all have minimum wages. Implementation of minimum wage laws is highly correlated with improved standards of living among the poorest, and is not correlated with significant increases in unemployment. (Empirical studies show things like a 0.6% decrease in employment, and only among teenagers, for a 10% increase in the minimum wage.)
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