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I've just moved to a new house...That house is in the middle of a forest and there is no land-line there, so I'm connecting internet using cellular modem driven by a SIM card...
That card has fixed-size browsing package (of 20GB for now) with a bit slower connection speed (it highly depends on the weather  )...
So now (after some 10 years) I have to watch my steps when going online...
I found that is a bit hard to me, but on the other side I've done more work in one evening than I've done in 2-3 days before...
So - it is an interesting experience - no outcome yet...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Now, that was silly, wasn't it?
"I don't care how many damn bedrooms it has! What's the broadband like?" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, that was silly, wasn't it?
Actually I think not...
The kids have a great time - we have horses to ride and forest to explore...
I'm not even sure if it's wrong that I'm less online (of course I have less time to answer QA and I may loose my MVP, but on the other hand I have more time to write articles...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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And soon the kids will want to share your bandwidth...
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Haha, share? Take is more like it 
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I didn't want to scare him!
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Get an iPhone and a cat and his upload speed is ruined too
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OriginalGriff wrote: I didn't want to scare him!
You didn't...
Actually internet is not a medium my kids care for, not too much even for the phone (and they have a free line to use)...They grew up without TV and a big dosage of classic libraries...The only usage of computer they know of is to watch DVD (loaned from that library) and write homework (including a bit of Google search)...
If there is a choice to go out or watch a movie they will go out even in rain...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You can make things better buy using good anti-spyware software and also by running your own DNS-Server to speed things up.
Even the Tor network can be made to work at a decent speed if you do lots of blocking and maybe some caching using a proxy server
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What would you write to say that you think about user. In other words, you develop something keeping in mind how end user will react/interact/think about this? How this can be best expressed in documents related to Project/Resume?
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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Usability?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I think i'm unable to explain what i want. I want to mention somewhere that the person has ability to think how user will think about this Product/App/Software. He can think from client perspective.
It can be a sentence or single word also. I tried but unable to tailor it properly.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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I am not completely clear on where you are trying to get to, however guessing what you mean - here are two sentences:
"The developer is able to put himself/herself into the shoes of the user."
"The developer has an understanding of the users' needs."
[edit - here's an extra one for free]
"In developing the solution the developer will have an understanding of the needs of the users, the technical competence of the users as well as the level of abstraction, with regards to information, the users are able to master."
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Empathy.
This was the term used in an Engineering Design course I attended three decades ago.
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Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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I think you might want to express that with reference to UX (user experience) design skill.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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"You'll like this, you'll see."
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What I think of some users should never be written down.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Why?
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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You could help with the (ongoing) aftermath of the Nepal earthquake.
There are a couple of projects that need computer / mouse skill (if not development):
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake[^] Digitizing satelite images to find roads and so forth to help with the relief effort.
http://www.tomnod.com/[^] Spotting damaged and destroyed buildings, so relief workers know where to go.
The former is a long process - you have to train. The second is pretty much "jump in a do it" - it's a consensual "this is a building, says 6 people" confidence thing.
If you have the time, give it a try!
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Done 100 or so on Tomnod. More tomorrow...
Good stuff!
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Lotta cloud up there, isn't there?
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Thank you for sharing! 
(There are places you can't see beyond the clouds...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I did a few hundred this morning and hope to do a few more, after Mother's Day festivities. 
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