serious question on behalf of the uniformed, why? I feel that society encourages people to double down and be consistent even if they are armed with better information. we could be better if we didn't have to stick to the one true path, no?
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
Wise, (before TransferWise) is a very fast growing payments provider that's popular across Europe and the world. I've used it with no problems to sign up with AWS and many many other services -- we run our entire company off the Wise account and it's never been a problem so far :shrug:
It is however, as they state quite clearly on their website, not a bank, but an e-payments provider which 'does things differently', including as mentioned on the thread, giving it's users bank accounts numbers based in a different country to where they actually live. In theory this shouldn't lead to problems, but in practice it often does.
So I suspect a lot people, seeing this, will roll their eyes and say "whatever, get a real bank account and try again".
> giving it's users bank accounts numbers based in a different country to where they actually live
This is actually not meaningfully different: the 2 countries in question are both EU countries, and as long as you're an EU resident, you can register for a bank account in another country without problems (I know because I've done it with another provider... With a real bank account, btw which provides me the 100000€ guarantee in case that they'd go bust)
Of course, that's not saying that things are always perfectly smooth (I know that some Italian banks have issues to set up standing orders to other EU bank accounts, and the Italian bureaucracy itself expect you to declare and pay taxes just for the privilege of having a bank account elsewhere in the EU)
This assumes that once the design is done it should not, or does not have to change.
Like anyone, designers can be wrong, customers can end up using certain features in ways not intended, and using software in ways that are not ergonomic.
So in that sense, design can and should be fluid. Where I work, designers often meet with customers (some external, some not) and continually get feedback, which the developers act on. IMO stopping design as soon as development starts increases the chance of having a poor design, forever.
Sometimes it's not known that a design has flaws until things start coming together during a project and some workflows become more prominent (and painful) than others.
By customers I guess you mean shoppers, yeah they never care nor they should. Merchants on the other hand will loose money if the solution don't scale affordably.
I think they meant working at a non-colleagues house.
At least, that's what I plan to do when it's possible, every now and then.
I think the change of pace would be nice, back at university I'd do the same with people not on my course.
Being genuinely fond of each other makes time go faster.
Of course, I'd also want to work outside of the office, with my colleagues too. A change of environment every now and then can't hurt.
