dreamfactory

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by dreamfactory 13y ago
The article seems quite confusing on a number of fronts. Architects of buildings don't actually use waterfall for a start - they continually adapt and improvise (in response to things like variable materials supply, soil conditions, we
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
The gas works well at preserving the coffee from oxidation. The bigger problem is with water temperature - espresso is incredibly sensitive and will become either sour or bitter if the temperature goes outside a very narrow band. This is wh
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
The point I was trying to make is that you could hardly assemble worse 'data' if you tried. It's blatantly absurd from the coffee he used to test, and if you have ever had both Nespresso and decent coffee (e.g. just about any
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I don't mean after roast (whole beans should be good for a couple of weeks). The author had ground his beans 4 days previous to the test.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
This is a bit ridiculous. Nespresso is best described as not bad and not good - it's drinkable in the same way as Starbucks. The technology is pretty rudimentary and the machines don't have sufficient boilers to get a consistent w
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
How about you?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
In light of http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/report-snow... - I'd say it was pretty tough to make any credible case that NSA wasn't at the crux of the matter. Frankly to suggest otherwise
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It's replacing a declarative syntax with a procedural one as far as I understand which is a huge (and unwelcome) shift.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I do love the idea of an API-centred Lego-ish software assembly approach, but imagining a future when my entire app solely consists of calls to API's (maybe 100's of them), I worry a bit about wait times due to serial blocking cal
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
since we all started walking around with internet-connected mobile devices with a ton of hardware sensors this got a lot trickier.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
So you never heard of TIA and data mining?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
So 'only following orders' is the defense here? And these orders (e.g. hacking Google's SSL endpoints, big data mining) originate from politicians? (And to call scrutiny 'tiresome' when the director baldly lies to c
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
You know Mussolini was a populist.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
They are specifically not PoWs, that's the whole controversy.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
You need to distinguish between democracy and populism. Democracy isn't simply majority rule but a voice for everybody.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It happens but you need to recognise the true cost. You always pay interest on the other side at some point. At the same time you weaken boundaries and introduce instability.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Bear in mind that LOC is an ongoing cost not an asset.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> what, precisely, would be the rating Peer review aka open source.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I'd put forward the proposition that not only is there no need to measure productivity of developers, but that this is a counterproductive management approach. 1. You have hyperproductive developers (the famous 10x ones). Everybody kno
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Seen how much people pay for enterprise levels in Omniture?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Indeed, the post is about crappy management and little else. This is the real story - we talk about scarcity of engineers but it's as nothing compared to the scarcity of effective technical management, which is an industry scandal IMO.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Agile PM would actually put process first and simply measure output because poor processes impact everything else and give you no chance of sustained success. You should be trying to optimise the conditions for optimal outcomes via facilita
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
That's the Zen of good tech management!
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Hardly, faster time to market is a value multiplier, not a loss.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Hats off re good promo and topicality - but I'd expect something a bit more broadly reflective and nuanced. Really don't think you've thought this one through. You seem to have taken a line for a walk and inadvertently reinve
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
That's a variant on 'nothing to hide nothing to fear'. Plenty of average Joes in East Germany under the Stasi may disagree with that notion being even potentially benign in its outcome. I'd imagine you have doors and cur
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It's considered acceptable if you are talking about her pre-transition life.
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If Nelson Mandela really had won, he wouldn't be seen as a universal hero(theguardian.com)
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
One way to keep on top of the KPIs
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
You are describing any terrorism here.

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