dreamfactory

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by dreamfactory 13y ago
...or more generally the CLI vs GUI argument
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
> Gee whillikers, if only anyone ever had studied the unconscious changes in reaction to a proposal submitted under a male name or a female name! According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5554390 , women actually come off worse
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
In retrospect he looks something like a remixed but straight swap-out for John Major. (Gore Vidal had interesting views on Major.)
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
On reflection for measure and balance, I guess I should also have mentioned her support of apartheid (describing Nelson Mandela as "a terrorist"), and her support of the Khmer Rouge :/
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Well there was the collusion between the government, police, and courts during the miners strike and also the use of blacklisting. Then there's the homophobia (another common strand with the kind of control freaks who are attracted to fasci
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
She was highly corporatist - which is a hallmark of fascism.
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Cool, would also be curious to see it mapped against the tube map as printed, not geographically accurate.
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
...cannot believe that nobody else has pointed this out
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
This is why I fundamentally disagree with the 'friendly' URLs approach. URLs are meant to be unique and permanent resources. Injecting your information architecture or page title etc into this is a horribly leaky abstraction - and those thi
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
I like the fact that it is case-sensitive and yet instructs to be typed in ALL CAPS :)
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
The term PC was originally invented by Reaganite republicans as a piece of propaganda to lampoon the left. The weird thing is that it then ironically caught on, presumably amongst complete dimwits.
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
For one thing Spamassassin is quite hopeless compared to Gmail's filter (and yes I have compared). But more to the point I would absolutely equate web with server-side hosted app. For example, if you want to implement decent search it's pro
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
> Furthermore, I would like to point out that facebook only knows as much about you as you tell it. Important distinction - it knows as much about you as you and your network tell it.
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Enterprise B2B has started moving very strongly towards web-based apps in the last couple of years e.g. Salesforce
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
> the fact that e.g. Google Mail (which is a great web application) is considered superior to e.g. something like Sparrow is quite frankly very amazing It's a good example actually. Even considering the less pretty UI, Google Mail is su
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
A lot of commenters focussing here on technical privacy solutions - but that seems to be missing the current move towards behavioural tracking. And the irony is that this is a lot of the really exciting stuff for many here - look at truelen
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Well the majors used to own distribution. Also manufacturing where they could apply economies of scale, and sales channels where they would operate deals. They also brought an effective monopoly on promotion to the party (street posters, ra
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Is this any different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperors_New_Mind ?
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
> I don't want to automatically get turned down for a job because a woman applied. If that were a real policy (which I don't think it is), I suppose the point is that even then the odds would be against it impacting you as there are so
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Thought about this but it should be a self-regulating system to some extent. The longer a task takes, the higher its value. If it becomes overvalued (workers are deliberately doing it slowly and making less money than they could, which is q
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
The author seems to be referring to chip and PIN - but this isn't used in Europe for card not present transactions, which the author says accounts for nearly all fraud.
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
If you can categorise the tasks (which is a very big if), you can maintain an index of the time taken for tasks of a given type to complete and value accordingly in effort required. Allow employees to pick available tasks and they will grav
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Until they need commenting. I would think hosted wordpress is the more natural fit for most posterous users than github.
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
In other words you're a troll or you don't know how web publishing works :p I'm talking about major news and media organisations. Immediacy has always been a key differentiator in news and financial data for example (look at trading co's wh
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Real time publishing is essential if you have a competitive SEO requirement. Google has got good enough that seconds count for web publishing operations. Static page-based content management is also anathema to a content services approach,
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Seems a very obvious manufactured PR story
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
I wouldn't be so sure, it's far more common to peak creatively when you're younger.
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by dreamfactory 14y ago
Black suits aren't supposed to be worn for business. They are for evening wear. They should only be worn in the day if you are a waiter, doorman, undertaker, American etc.