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by sidstling 8y ago
The fact that you’re only a click away from being on the internet has something to do with it, but the political pendulum is swinging to the right and no right-winger has ever burned her bra. I’m not trying to say that everyone has turned a
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by sidstling 8y ago
I think it’s fair to consider IRC a social tool. It’s build around small communities made up of people who both belong to and run the various rooms. So within that you have a social structure, you have familiarity and you have social hierar
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by sidstling 8y ago
You can escalate it by contacting the political leadership of the department directly. If they failed to adhere to the law you should do so, but I’d urge you not to request access in the future unless it’s really important. Because making a
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by sidstling 8y ago
I think all publicly funded software should be open source. The public paid for it, they should have a right to look under the hood, like they can with almost every other piece of government. I’m also a realist, and have you met the EU? We’
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by sidstling 8y ago
I actually really like Azure. Orchestra and application insights have made incident support so much easier, and it’s only as lock-on as you make it. I also worry because of the political climate. It’s extremely unlikely, that the relationsh
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by sidstling 8y ago
I’ll admit that I’m not knowledgeable about the German public sector, but I’d really love to see how they managed to save money. I work primarily with digitization and efficiency, so I’m cursed in that I’m always thinking about cost efficie
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by sidstling 8y ago
It’s because it’s not really doable without tremendous effort. I work for a muniplavity in Denmark, and we’re a big participants in an open source group for public software called OS2, we’re also members of a group of municipalities that ow
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by sidstling 8y ago
Imposter syndrome is real. I’m educated, have worked professionally in my specific field for four years and I do side-work as an examiner at academy level (something I’m certified for). I’ll often feel like I’m not good enough when I join a
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by sidstling 8y ago
During the Cold War we had two government bunkers that only a handful of people knew about in my country. 30 years after the Cold War when Russia opened their soviet archives, it turned out that they were never secret at all.
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by sidstling 8y ago
I’ve been using FastMail for a year, it’s an easy switch from gmail. The spam-filter is terrible but the support actually answers you. I chose fastmail over proton or tutanota because they’ve been around longer and charge everyone money. Ma
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by sidstling 8y ago
I had a change denied because I didn’t attach open source evidence, so it was my fault, but because it got contested I couldn’t just redo the change. An account vetting system would solve this. Being an official municipality it’s kind of si
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by sidstling 8y ago
I only meant to compare them in the sense that they are both really good at getting a working prototype up and running fast. You’re absolutely right that this requires knowledge of packages for node/js. We haven’t been using a whole lo
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by sidstling 8y ago
Almost every, and probably every, language that has been used for serious production is relevant in 2018. COBOL is still one of the most important languages in the belly of a lot of financial and public software. You wouldn’t build somethin
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by sidstling 8y ago
Why wouldn’t it have a future? We use it quite a lot in the European public sector where we can’t use google maps because of privacy issues. We’ve written a small app that does route calculations for us to make reporting business related dr
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by sidstling 8y ago
We have, I haven’t personally done any of it in production because I didn’t really see a reason to use it over node. My coworkers did a few pocs though, and initially had to spend a lot of time actually getting it to work with deployment. I
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by sidstling 8y ago
I’m not so sure about that. I see node getting more and more traction these days. In 2012 it was a hipster tech, in 2018 it’s actually starting to see its way into production. At least around here, my own place included. We’re a .net shop,
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by sidstling 8y ago
A lot of the failures I experience at born from trying to solve business process problems with digitization, or digitization without ever asking if it’s the right thing/way to do stuff. Another common problem is focusing too much on a
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by sidstling 8y ago
And the error completely takes focus away from the point, which was about causality. My only defense is that classical history was a 5ECTS course during my first year and I never actually finished the full five years before I went into CS.
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by sidstling 8y ago
Except nobody is going to listen, and you can’t really do reliable prediction, but mostly, nobody will listen. I studied history before I went into computer science, and it’s taught me some useful skills. Mostly it’s taught me that things a
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by sidstling 8y ago
It’s not personalized trash cans, it’s public ones at streets and beaches. You wouldn’t really need IoT in the trash can if it’s emptied on a schedule, but a lot of public trash cans see very different usage amounts over the year. As for du
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by sidstling 8y ago
I disagree with this. I think you can find facts in most parts of life. What has changed is how we use those facts to try and build a narrative, by chosing the facts that support the story we want to tell and ignore the facts that don’t. An
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by sidstling 8y ago
I did specifically say it wasn’t technically the languages fault, but you certainly have a point. I don’t think it’s completely unreasonable to bring in SOAP even though you’re talking about the language, because I’ve almost never worked wi
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by sidstling 8y ago
Danish muniplacities are installing IoT devices in a long range of things, from monitoring when a trash can is full, keeping track of parking, creating rfid tours with bits of historic-info showing up in an app as you travel around the city
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by sidstling 8y ago
I write a lot of smaller service agents, connecting legacy systems or feeding them with data in the public sector of Denmark. Most of those are done with XML and it’s often quite terrible. We write a lot of C# but one of our tools is an old
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by sidstling 8y ago
It’s an interesting story, though also tragic and frightening. I probably would’ve lead with reason five. It seems to me that abusing holes, in employee safety laws for disabled people, is one of the worse evils they commit. I wonder how mu
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by sidstling 8y ago
For around ten years I didn’t read much, not because I didn’t want to, I certainly did, but because it takes too long. I get up at around 6am, get home from work at around 5pm and then I have daily chores mixed with family stuff for 3-5 hou
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by sidstling 8y ago
We actually have some internal problems with those measures in Scandinavia. I live in Denmark and politically we’re made up of 98 municipalities, some are urban, some are rural. Because we share the economic task of welfare, richer municipa
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by sidstling 8y ago
As I understand it those forced acceptances aren’t actually GDPR compliant, and are mostly a result of bad business practices on behalf of the companies who won’t comply with EU law. I might be wrong though, and even if I’m not, it’ll proba
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by sidstling 8y ago
Microsoft was a lot faster to accept and accompany our privacy terms. The EU data protection laws that you've seen all the fuzz about may be new for the private sector, but in much of the public sector we've actually been under mu
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by sidstling 8y ago
I work for a Danish city with 60.000 inhabitants, so we're a small team, and because of that we looked into flutter since it seems like an easy way to do mobile for people apt at c-like languages. We even had some internal talks about

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