dreamfactory

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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It doesn't really matter who is collecting. It's the aggregation and storage that is the root problem - because sooner or later that data will get into all the sufficiently determined wrong hands. If the NSA can't secure data
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
or buying a product
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
CQ5 looks better (but isn't).
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
You might also reasonably ask why tptacek and friends weren't blowing the whistle as this is huge news to most.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It could maybe be described as hidden in plain sight. If you dug around there were pieces in the public domain that you could put together. But if you suggested this, you would have been dismissed as a tinfoil hatter by most people. More to
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It's news to my mother. Half of the UK and US government are saying it's news to them. The world's press seems to think it qualifies as news.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
1984 wasn't really about predictions. Orwell was writing about Britain and Russia in 1948.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a diy upgrade market for ipads at least.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
From what I've seen in enterprise java, SOA tends to just refer to internal services at a very low level of granularity - basically seems to be OOP with classes described as services. (This may well be a mangling of a good concept.)
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
MVC manages it and is possibly the most common pattern in web dev.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
A transaction should be the lowest level by definition e.g. it's not an API if you are just proxying CRUD on your db tables. Agree on smallest API possible (otherwise you will die in maintenance hell after you pick up a few clients) -
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It's an opportunity to improve performance as the abstraction gives you a caching boundary which is appropriate to the application.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
They need to stay there to collect intelligence.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
For web at least, in some ways it's a cop out. All the developers I worked with are self-taught and in any case colleges in the West tend to be way behind industry practises.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_(2009_film) is a great film where the streets of London are almost like a central character.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
And they might buy any other service in future
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
http://www.ponychan.net/chan/dis/res/75296.html#75350
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I look at it as technically informed product ownership - merging business and technical domain knowledge to make the right tradeoffs. How else can you execute effectively?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I think it's justified on the basis of a rising tide lifting all boats - particularly for a country moving into a skills/knowledge economy.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
going by the upvotes, we aren't the only people to have seen this anti-pattern...
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
So maybe a relevant question as we move away from desktop computing is whether your mobile device can be identified through online activity, such as commenting, searching, email etc. This would be useful for locating dissidents.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Before 1998 in the UK ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_fees_in_the_United_King... )
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> Think student loans never existing. You mean free tuition for all like we used to have?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Makes me wonder if he wasn't a prolific tech debt producer who was seen by management to GTD.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> Italics and capital letters have little or nothing to do with how 'Western' web layouts are generally created, and are far from the only way to create emphasis or hierarchy in text. They are key to graphic design. Though even
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
That's a big part of what you're paying an agency for. The whole point of elance is diy management.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Aligning business reqs and technical implementation is a harder and more expert job than the development part. These sites assume it doesn't exist and leave a client and dev to scrap it out in a zero sum game.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> if the system wasn't in place, there would be many, many more incidents of this type Because it was happening all the time before
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> I think it's likely that there are actual results that help NSA leadership rationalize these sorts of programs AKA paying the mortgage
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
..and while the intelligentsia are busy debating the theoretical possibility of the existence of said teapot, the powers that be are acting decisively and defining the reality.

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