BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 8y ago
From my point of view, the main benefit of microservices is risk reduction. Microservices allow you to iterate rapidly and roll out new features without potentially affecting your application as a whole. "Do one thing and do it well.&q
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Doug McIlroy, the inventor of UNIX pipes is quoted as "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.". I know it&#x2
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
One cannot not communicate. One cannot not design. Dropbox is the interface in this case.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The basic metaphors are still the same because we're still using mouses on the desktop. With mobile devices these metaphors break down fairly quickly, though. HTML-based applications however also introduced a number of new metaphors an
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Having to worry about all these different screen sizes, devices, browsers and OS is a completely valid reason for not using a Windows 95 era form builder anymore.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The truly paranoid answer probably is burner phones with no personally identifiable information on them but that might not exactly be practical or useful in many cases. iOS devices fare pretty well in terms of privacy. Siri operates on your
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Has it ever really been? I think that, as of today, Microsoft is cooler than it’s ever been before.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
To answer the question (without having read the article): Code is communication. Code is used to communicate your intent to - a machine - others working on the same problem or application - your future self
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
You probably can't go wrong with either Django or Rails. From my personal point of view I'd favour Rails. In the past at least, Django also was more about creating CMS-type applications whereas Rails' main focus always has be
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Reserving a certain amount of phone numbers costs money as well as do phone plans for businesses. Those spammers typically don't have just one phone number but plenty of them. They probably also don't have your usual private phone
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
They can but they won’t because it’s a revenue stream for them just as mail spam is a major revenue stream for postal services. I’m at a loss why regulators don’t do anything about this (well, other than downright corruption, that is ...).
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
There are ways to alleviate these problems though. By "disadvantages" in this respect I understand "inherent problems that can't easily be solved or at least alleviated". You can establish policies that ensure life
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
My preferred IDE is IntelliJ IDEA. For less complex tasks or projects I also use Sublime Text.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I'm not sure what the legal framework for this is in France. Hence, my best advice is this: Contact a lawyer who's well-versed in local IT law before doing anything further at all.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
They already have both a version control and a continuous integration offering. So, it wouldn't really make sense for them to buy GitLab from a products point of view.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
As with web apps and applications in general there's a wide gamut of different app categories. There's also frameworks such as Ionic that provide native or near-native capabilities and experience through native bindings.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Cookie warnings aren't a part of GDPR regulations but rather the ePrivacy regulation, which will come into force in 2019. So, as of today you don't have to show these. However, europa.eu and ec.europa.eu overall are among the leas
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
So far I won't and I personally haven't heard of anyone who does. Then again, maybe it's still too early to tell for sure. I'll certainly wait how this works out and not make any rash decisions. Apart from that (and admi
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
As an aspirational goal or as an actual opportunity at hand? In the latter case I'd say you'd have quite a daunting task ahead of you. Without any previous management experience and existing leadership skills becoming the CTO of a
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
A solid answer would depend on: - what it is your startup does - how you process user data - what third parties - if any - you draw upon to process that user data If you process any user data at all (of users currently located in the EU, th
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
In terms of front-end development for business applications I'd recommend Angular (current version: 6. Since they adopted semver major releases have become much more frequent). It gives you an easy way to structure your application in
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I'm not sure if Amazon's recommendation algorithm would qualify as AI. Basically, it's still just shopping basket analysis as in the somewhat famous "Men who buy beer on Fridays are also likely to buy diapers." stor
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I remember when after years of dabbling with Deluxe Paint IV on the Amiga I first used professional graphics software like Photoshop or Corel Draw and was utterly confused why everything seemed to be so needlessly complex with these tools:
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Well, it's not entirely unlike a general American accent. First of all, it's rhotic. Then, some of the vowels sound more American than their contemporary English / British counterparts. Apart from a few dropped h's, whic
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
That'd be a Yorkshire accent. The closest this comes to in terms of modern accents is West Country, which both geographically and linguistically probably is as far away from Yorkshire as you can get.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
HTML is declarative if you use it that way. You can even use it as an API: https://bjoernkw.com/2018/05/20/html-is-an-api/ HTML is a good compromise between procedural / event-based UI frameworks (
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The interesting thing about Lotus Notes is that it started out as something that wasn't that far from Engelbart's vision of a collaborative UI. Unfortunately, it ended up being predominantly used as a makeshift email client but it
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Somewhat cheesy title but “Secrets of Power Negotiating” is a classic: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-15th-Annive...
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I don't think that's such a good example. Climate change should be debated. Not if it's happening but to what extent and effect. Science after all is about questioning findings and theories. Discussing climate change shouldn&
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I don't think that such a clear-cut distinction based on motivation or general intent can be made. There are political factions in the US whose goals are quite similar to those of more left-leaning factions in the EU. In general, you c

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