dreamfactory2

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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
I can see a marginal convenience factor but I'm struggling to see anything beyond that. Is it that hard to incorporate and set up a bank account in the US? Incorporation in the UK is a 10 buck 10 minute online process already and openi
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
article assumes specs are known. they might be for some kind of brochureware but for any serious work they never are, and in business reqs change day to day. 60% of software features are never used - so that's 60% overspend right there
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
and a rookie mistake in sales
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
MLM by any other name :D
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
> you will never depend on other people to maintain code that you use assuming 'you' is the end user of the system, this model creates an eternal dependency on whoever wrote the software. it's not scalable over time
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Rolling your own is almost never the best solution unless you are creating something truly innovative. This is almost never the case for client work as they are operating in defined markets. What always fails to get factored in is total lif
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
MVP doesn't have to involve custom code (or any code at all for that matter). See most startup landing pages or kickstarter for example which test interest in an idea
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
only way around this is to not be an employee
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Big SI offshore dev operations sometimes use LOC still. (This is a part of why corporate enterprise software is so poor.)
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
That was a deliberate design choice for Drupal 7. The reasons were: - Loose coupling. Drupal has been becoming increasingly API-centric and storage engine agnostic. Focusing on the physical storage schema for a DB engine misses the point of
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
It's not as fuzzy a question as you make out. People like Warhol and Koons may have satirised consumer culture, but this is completely different to the assumption that quality content can/must be funded by an advertising business
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
And funnily enough they are finding that model doesn't work and removing the paywalls as of course there is no scarcity of material in an attention economy, just scarcity of attention. As strange as it may sound, ultimately publishers
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
that money will be in the economy anyway unless everyone decides to take cash and stuff it in a mattress
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
...though publishing subscription paywalls are now disappearing
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
they've already got your time in an attention economy
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Which significant cultural works have been ad-funded?
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
> but at some point it'd be outrageous to maintain that process why? plenty of large orgs have human customer services, even fast food. as you scale operations, you'll find efficiencies in any case eg. CS knowledgebase.
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
I don't disagree with the gist of your comment but time to market is generally massively undervalued (and particularly by technical folk). It's more often than not a great reason for taking on tech debt (not to mention that early
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
It seems to me that the throughput on the left side is faster - and therefore even if it were more spaced out (not the case in rush hour when it is almost as crowded as the right side), the fact that people are moving faster and spending le
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
I once worked at a magazine where they bought a large luxury house somewhere in Europe on the basis that they might use it for the odd photoshoot
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
> Most startups aren't doing anything that special, and so this whole, "We have to move at twice the speed of light or we're all dead!" attitude doesn't belong anywhere. burn rate/runway is a critical surviv
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
This just sounds like a description/discovery of UX/service design. BDUF is also a huge problem there, hence Lean UX
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
I have fond childhood memories of poisoning pigeons in the park
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=london+electric+car+bays&s...
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Europe already has these
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
It sounds like the problem isn't flatness so much as a complete absence of mission and direction. Any team needs a mission to organise itself around solving
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
It's not that simple at all - for example the recent finding that even using your own mailservers, half your mail would be going through google. As networking increases, data is becoming little more compartmentalised than the air we br
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
> anti-humanist modernists And yet the totalitarian dictator types alway seem to prefer classicism
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
Brutalism is anti-totalitarian. It was a utopian movement using the latest technologies to rebuild accommodation and social environments with incredibly constrained postwar budgets after the devastation of the air war in Europe.
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by dreamfactory2 11y ago
It's very formalized in Barcelona's Eixample - the streets are on a square grid and each block is mix-zoned in order that each is a mini community e.g. you probably have a cafe and restaurant on your block, don't need to go f

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