dreamfactory2

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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
Governments and companies are very much on the same team these days (think of it as a one party state with occasional internal disagreements and manouverings) - so there won't be anything 'mischievous' going on from those qua
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
London, Berlin, and Nordics are very strong for European startups. A lot of stuff starting to happen in Asia too (e.g. Taipei, Seoul, Bangkok)
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
> to be efficient, pair programming has to produce more correct code... how can you not assume they'd be able to create more code with a keyboard and no interruptions I measure efficiency by less code not more
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
this tradition happens twice a day - http://tastythailand.com/standing-still-for-thailands-nation...
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
> the military prohibits campaigning against pieces of "legislation" they want passed -- like the new constitution They prohibit campaigning either for or against
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
> It's very very hard to work out if the public affection for the King is for real It's real. A lot of people have small shrines in their houses
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
> you can't trust the opinions of somebody whose freedom of speech is restricted and that has been raised by state propaganda This definition applies to everybody, moreso those who don't realise it applies to them
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
5. Accesses and mines your phone book. (My rolodex is my business and no way FB or LI are getting it direct from me.)
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by dreamfactory2 10y ago
We've evolved as omnivores with unfussy requirements and highly efficient metabolism
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
The entire offshoring software industry is already Taylorised. I'm not saying it's good or efficient but it is the reality of large software projects. The architects are onshore and have never coded in their lives. They draw boxe
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
> In a cashless society, it becomes possible (if not inevitable) the enforcement of that taxation will become even more onerous. Automation
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Looks good, but horrible in the hand. Cargo culting Braun basically. They need to revive the iPhone 3 form factor.
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
I hate it on the watch. I'm not that uncoordinated and always misfiring it and confused by what happens. For anyone actually disabled I'd imagine it must be a sick joke accessibility anti-pattern.
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
The UK used to have an unofficial version of UBI in the 70's and 80's when it was feasible, if somewhat difficult, to mooch off the benefits system, including getting reasonable low end accommodation. This had a kind of freakonomi
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
some things aren't for sale
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
So I guess VPNs centralise the traffic of people who care about spoofing geography and/or keeping their traffic private from their ISP
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Are those the papers he wrote in his spare time while he was working full time as an office clerk?
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Do VPN providers know any less than an ISP?
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
It's because your jaw will change shape when there is a void an it can affect other teeth in the row. Also if you remove a tooth on the lower jaw, the corresponding tooth above on the upper jaw can start to travel downwards in the abse
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Hmm I'm in marketing/sales and spend a lot on LinkedIn. That's a simple business decision because it saves me time and makes way more than it costs. The more friction and anti-user crap they have, the weaker that business cas
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Slack's core killer feature is a reasonably well executed omni-channel experience. I'm not talking about it as a central hub for comms via integrations (although that flows from this idea), but about seamless handoff creating a un
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
not sure if they changed course, but slack has been talking about becoming the hub for all business comms and files and eating into ms office/google apps
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Also true for music, film, games and massively amplified by digital storage and distribution. I really don't care about the price of a book as the increasingly astronomical cost to me as I age is the time to read it.
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Most of this is operations-oriented and wide open to attack from automation. MBA won't give you the creative solution orientation you need for strategy and in some ways you'd be better equipped for this with a training in the arts
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
yodlee covers uk. i suspect this is a mechanical turk service with humans at the other end logging in
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater. These people have done their 10k hours in the field while you've done it in a different field - and it just comes off as ignorant bullying to call them charlatans etc. For example: > Their l
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
The rant is uninformed. Typographic design (which is the basis of all graphic design) is all about readability and reinforcing meaning of the text. The 75 character line thing for example is based on comfortable eye scanning for text at boo
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Given the 6 tries, is there any benefit to a strong password?
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
LI is irreplaceable right now as a business networking and lead tool, but maddening and getting worse daily in terms of UX. I already pay hundreds on it and ready to pay thousands as it's easily worth that to my business. But I'm
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
This sounds about right as the US would have hit market maturity much earlier in the tech cycle. Same with mobile networks, which are also backwards compared to those in Europe which came later and leapfrogged due to advances in tech and in

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