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by moksly 5y ago
Maybe it’s because of how we buy prescription medicine. You’ll get the prescription from your doctor, and then go to a pharmacy where they will default to offering you the cheapest brand available at the time of your purchase, and ask if yo
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by moksly 5y ago
Here’s the thing about public data from the perspective of the public sector. We operate 300+ different systems, some are tiny, some are major. Some are build as “modern” web-fronts with healthy APIs behind them, some are older than you and
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by moksly 5y ago
“If you’re a drug manufacturer looking for patients”. Maybe I’m just too Scandinavian to understand, but wouldn’t it be the other way around? Now I also wonder if I should see a doctor. I’ve been getting a lot of “is your will in order” com
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by moksly 5y ago
Doesn’t most research in scrolling show that it totally kills user engagement and decision making, but keeps them longer? Google probably wants its users to actually make a decision and click a link.
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by moksly 5y ago
I think a lot of the culture of Microsoft remains the same as it was when Balmer left. As much as it’s fun to laugh at his “developers, developers, developers” sort of thing, his real legacy should probably how Microsoft formed its Business
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by moksly 5y ago
I work in public sector digitalisation and have for a decade, so this article sort of rings home with me. Especially now, having passed a year of thousands of office workers working from home and having seen a rise in efficiency and quality
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by moksly 5y ago
It’s a nice catchphrase to generate attention for your hbo-series that is now teaching everyone to paint though.
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by moksly 5y ago
> Carriers were just not interested in phones from smaller manufacturers, and it's not entirely clear that there is no backflow of cash involved at higher levels. I really doubt it’s something sinister in enterprise sized logistics.
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by moksly 5y ago
The default assumption for many people will be that something which sells, but has a low rating, is a business opportunity. The real business opportunity is the sale of the list of course. It’s sort of like selling shovels to and booze to g
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by moksly 5y ago
Because drugs is a commodity people want. There are numerous examples throughout history where different forms of currencies get shut down by the ruling body. There is of course an argument to be made about Bitcoin being a commodity. But I
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by moksly 5y ago
But you can just buy an android. What you can’t do, is break Apple and then still have an Apple option for those of us who really don’t want an android phone.
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by moksly 5y ago
It’s really silly to see how there fishing industry was used in the Brexit ordeal. This is bad of course, and it’s exactly what they were told would happen, but it’s also just 32 million pounds. Compare that to the 300 billion worth of expo
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by moksly 5y ago
I don’t think anyone who uses an iOS device wants epic to win. Most of us are specifically in the walled garden because we just want our tech to work. Would I rather have an open source system, including for my phone, that works as well as
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by moksly 5y ago
Isn’t the development community sort of there? I mean, most things are still run on PHP, and honestly, I recently saw an open source “forms for the public sector” thing build in Drupal, and now I’m wondering if we’ll ever need another custo
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by moksly 5y ago
I think the internet is just different. Content creation has become something people do in pursuit of profit rather than something they do out of interest or just the lulz. People don’t spend 9 days creating the perfect YTMND thing because
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by moksly 5y ago
It’s interesting to see how Moot gets the blame for the all the things that happened after he sold off 4chan. Especially when you consider how anonymous and the occupy movements were all the rage among woke leftists a few years back, and th
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by moksly 5y ago
I’ve worked in the public sector of Denmark for quite a while, and that’s involved a loot of different APIs, and I’ve seen my share of the “poor-experience” examples. It’s always worse when there isn’t an API. That being said, the best APIs
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by moksly 5y ago
It depends a little on you definition of “microservice”, but we keep track of a lot of our “mostly single responsibility” data-processes that make up the builk of our AD, IDM and organisational database for 10.000 employees and 300+ IT syst
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by moksly 5y ago
I don’t think blockchain has much real world value in a legal sense. We’ve been running various pocs on it, with major and minor suppliers, crypto-people? (not sure what to call those techie/artist/idealists or what they call them
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by moksly 5y ago
There are no such people though.
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I work for an average sized Danish city. Even when we combined our datasets with 10 other average sized cities and accumulate the biggest national data set and let the big data wizards have a go at it, it wasn’t really large enough to amoun
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by moksly 6y ago
This is a bit of a side track, but does anyone actually use Pinterest? That is the site that taught me -site:Pinterest.* for google searches. :p
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by moksly 6y ago
I always feel like these academic approaches miss the point of why technical dept is just a thing that happens. Sure, there is the bit where business and development don’t speak the same language, which is outlined well in this article. But
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by moksly 6y ago
> “Nobody steals bad books” The popularity of something has nothing to do with its quality. More than that, if you’re indeed going by the MC Donalds way of measuring things, you’re bound to be much more interested in: > “Today Finland
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by moksly 6y ago
Page didn’t load right on mobile and then I couldn’t escape back to HN. Maybe you can blame Apple and Safari, and maybe I’m unfair, but if that’s the first impression I get from something related to programming, well...
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I think Stallman is an utter idiot for doing the “well akhshually” thing and pointing out, “that an old guy who has sex with 17 year old hookers, may not be aware they are being forced to have sec with him”. It’s not exactly defending a ped
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A tip to get rid of an annoying neighbour perhaps? :p
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Or that. And beyond that, different people learn different ways. If your target is to teach programming 101, you’re probably going to have more views than someone teaching people how to do banking related cobol.
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by moksly 6y ago
He’s a massive creep. I saw him speak in Copenhagen once, and he was eating his toenails during the talk. Later he couch bummed on the professors couch instead of staying at a hotel and the horrible experience of having him as a “guest” is
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by moksly 6y ago
Being talented at something doesn’t mean you’re talented at marketing and selling it. The headline is interesting but the article can easily be summed up as: “McDonalds isn’t the highest quality restaurant, but it’s very popular, and, I hav

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