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by wsy 10y ago
It depends hugely on the size of your application, and of your team. For small applications and and a team size of up to three devs, your approach might be preferable. But I can't imagine that it would scale well beyond that. You will
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by wsy 10y ago
One thing I always have to remind myself of is that it is never a binary decision between 'glorious' and 'ridiculous'. There is a continuum between both, where 'great', 'good', 'sufficient',
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by wsy 10y ago
It seems so, but in Germany it is not #1 priority. In my research lab in Germany, we were PhD students from about 15 countries, and the work language was English. This is very common for science and engineering research. So a student from C
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by wsy 10y ago
There is a common misunderstanding about free speech. Free speech means that your are not prosecuted for what you say (or - in this case - what you support). However, free speech does not mean "free from any consequences at all".
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by wsy 10y ago
> Dejavu: [...] 1960s: Client/Server Architecture. Big servers and small clients. This is right and wrong at the same time. Right, because the Cloud reuses some basic concepts from the mainframe era (e.g., virtualization), which had
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by wsy 10y ago
An article in NY Times does not help to make it less hidden, particularly for German users. What is required is to inform every user individually and ask for his/her permission to transmit the data to another party. Explicit permission
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by wsy 10y ago
It's not about outright banning, it's about limiting to the minimum amount required to perform the service. Btw. nobody complains about WhatsApp holding metadata about connections between people. We complain about WhatsApp transmi
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by wsy 10y ago
True, but no reason to let companies collect even more data than they need to perform the transaction. Your argument goes a bit like "every lock can be picked, so why are you opposed to just keeping your door open?"
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by wsy 10y ago
Funny definition of tyranny. Going back to the case itself: a) the German government is elected; b) most Germans are glad to have strong privacy protection rules in place. So it is simply democracy, and agreement on a different set of socia
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by wsy 10y ago
German law requires to use opt-in, i.e. the default setting of agreements to transfer data to other parties must be 'no' (or the checkbox must be empty). That way, it is very easy to make sure there is explicit consent to transfe
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by wsy 10y ago
It is one thing to be passionate about your work, and another thing trying to rescue the world (or your company, or your product). Your analogy with traffic is actually a perfect example: you want to change the whole traffic (when, where, a