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by dreamfactored 9y ago
It's very surprising how rare it is for employees to find out exactly how money flows into and through their organisation. I suspect developers are the worst here. But when you think about it, it's basic common sense to understand
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Models (should) abstract any data, providing services, and reside on the back end...
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
My variant is solve their problems. Works flawlessly until they leave and then you are back to square one :D
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
In a services company a salesperson will generate around 10x to the bottom line compared to an equivalent level fully utilised engineer, so this is more than fair.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Depends on whether you want to be a fungible cog in a race to the bottom on compensation. If yes, then you should make yourself a commodity. But if you want to move up the value chain, you should find out where those links are and start cli
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
This just says you didn't figure out the system but happened to 'luck out' one time. If you learn where the value is, you will know how to get recognition for any value you add (e.g. who values it and who's attention to
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
If you get recognition as the golden goose, many companies will promote rather than kill. Getting recognition is a part of figuring out where value is added .
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Microservices as the M in MVC?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Maybe Event Sourcing? - https://www.confluent.io/blog/messaging-single-source-truth/
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
The huge flaw with the 13" MBA was that although thinner and lighter, it had a bigger footprint than the 13" MPB. Particularly crucial with confined deskspace such as coffee shop, flying, on a train. Add in lack of RAM and retina
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
The objection to software you manage is the same as the objection to software you write - that you won't have the checks, balances, and liabilities of registered suppliers and this would create uninsurable risk that the banking ecosyst
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
> you can, like, use software that other people write on your own computer Sounds like your issue boils down to whether this is done with SaaS vs local app
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
The level of the 'hood' rises too. Used to be that in-depth knowledge of assembler, register efficiency and compilers was considered a requirement.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
So is it that they don't have an automated test suite or the coverage is poor?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Underlying driver for this is that an unregulated market favours economies of scale and network effects and therefore trends towards monopolies. This is particularly pronounced and accelerated on digital platforms.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Federated social networking solves this and didn't exist then. It allows separate networks to interoperate so you can still capture the overall utility of network effects. I think it would need governments to push this though e.g. reco
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
wouldn't it have to be recognisable/distinctive to be copyrightable?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
How about back and forth through a translation app or two?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
You can write a cheque on anything as it's just a written instruction. Sadly the story of the farmer who wrote one on the side of a cow turns out to be false.
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
> "what’s important is, well, the extent of fake accounts. If you’re selling advertising against those numbers, that cannot be ethical, and clearly that is something the advertising industry should be interested in." ouch
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Facebook and Twitter threatened with sanctions in UK 'fake news' inquiry(theguardian.com)
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Exceeds the utility to user obviously
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Wechat vs Whatsapp
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Instead of 'the market', think of government as a union representing the collective interests of citizens and empowered to intervene when those interests are threatened by forces of nature (which I would say very much includes &#x
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Next wave - aggregated subscription bundlers? Would also facilitate cross-marketing
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Native ads. Match that up with content creator networks
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Note that China has reproduced to a large extent and in some areas exceeded these services within a few years precisely through massive government intervention
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Ah, this is more what I might call 'macroservices' - API-centric full applications which can be used standalone with their own client interfaces or API-assembled into bigger solutions. I think this should be the default architectu
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
If the domain boundaries don't become self-evident perhaps there's nothing to break off in any case?
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by dreamfactored 9y ago
Doesn't that indicate a modular architecture or just feature flags rather than microservices?

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