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by zxienin 6y ago
Having spent some time looking at contact tracing app architectures across the world, I realize how conceptually same they are. Mostly variations are in central or decentral handling of data. BLE based. Similar usage protocol. Instead of 50
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by zxienin 6y ago
When serious data privacy and protection concerns are in play, German govt. banking on these is no surprise.
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by zxienin 6y ago
is it really that fuzzy? if so, I'd like to hear how divergent the views are on what diversity means in first place.
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Ask HN: Can you name a “truly” diverse company?
3 points by zxienin 6y ago|3 comments
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by zxienin 6y ago
Because your enlightened state is in conflict with their commercial interest. Providing complex answers to simple questions, almost always is due to a need to hide sth.
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by zxienin 6y ago
> As for me, this will be the last year I shop for products on Amazon for the foreseeable future +1 because of my own same position. Though, obviously this needs to happen at larger scale to have any impact.
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by zxienin 6y ago
> I will say their customer service has almost w/o exception been stellar At individual level, I’ve markedly experienced degraded customer service in last 1 year. For instance, I have to deal with hassles in cases where product sold
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by zxienin 7y ago
The very OS level baking in of GACT tells that intent is not to make this opt-in, in principle. Even if it is rolled out today as opt-in, the option stays open for a government to centrally enforce mandatory activation of tracking via Apple
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by zxienin 7y ago
> If you don't trust Google or Apple to do what they say they do then you need to stop using their OS and hardware. How realistic is to expect populace to exclude their choice of smartphones that are the dominant ones in market?
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by zxienin 7y ago
> OData allows the application to describe exactly what they need including things like filtering .. I hear this frequently. I have _never_ faced the need to have complex set of capabilities (OData) promising to solve a problem that I do
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by zxienin 7y ago
Spoken from experience? You may have something there. Put hundreds of PhDs in one place. Then even a simple SPA will have programming models (plural) behind.
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by zxienin 7y ago
To add on this. When you are working with HTTP APIs, do you really need to go full SQL like?
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by zxienin 7y ago
When you use SAP Gateway, you are already so locked into the tooling, that protocol, syntaxes appear less undesirable element.
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by zxienin 7y ago
They’re $30B, with YoY growth in teen double digits. https://www.sap.com/docs/download/investors/2020/sap-factshe... Acquisitions gave them some breather.
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by zxienin 7y ago
can't seem to reply to your comment below (no 'Reply' option for me, likely HN feature to avoid too deep nested threads) > Not sure if I've misinterpreted your comment then? Yes, misinterpreted. Refer: https:/&#
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by zxienin 7y ago
where is GraphQL v/s OData above?
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by zxienin 7y ago
If you've already spent time working with REST (or "REST like") APIs, either as API developer OR app dev consuming a one, best way to understand the problem, is now (try) to work with OData. Search HN, there are enough dis
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by zxienin 7y ago
If I come with “zero SAP knowledge”, I can’t make head or tails of api.sap.com
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by zxienin 7y ago
Ah, am sure that app wasn’t built in minutes :-) Keeping in mind you are 45 strong company setup, is your shop seriously getting onboard with this? And sell own apps within SAP customer base using these APIs? Building your stuff is one piec
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by zxienin 7y ago
I dunno which of the paywalled publications OP wants to draw attention to
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by zxienin 7y ago
> I’ve worked with this How? (this appears to be preview with “sandbox APIs”) Would you mind expanding on your experience working with this? > It is however unfortunate that they choose to use OData Had the same sentiments. They take
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by zxienin 7y ago
Are you part of SAP Graph team? If so, can you expand on above, wrt to workforce person, skills, travel request API resources in the explorer? These aren’t part of either CRM or ERP. Mostly, they come from SAP acquisition products (SuccessF
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by zxienin 7y ago
https://beta.graph.sap/docs/beta > What is SAP Graph? SAP Graph is a network of connected data objects that are stored and owned across different SAP solutions and technologies. The data objects that are made access
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by zxienin 7y ago
OData. That’ll surely take them far within developers. Maybe SAP brainwashed devs, who are willing to bear any level complexity SAP throws out. Not beyond. Why position “zero SAP knowledge required” and then throw odata in? > This is par
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by zxienin 7y ago
I just played with preview APIs. Can’t imagine what edge enterprise customers get over anyone else who’s willing to use it
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by zxienin 7y ago
> upstream SAP to change the API or remove API features Valid in equal measure with any API provider though. > powerful startup which SAP enterprises love to use you mean a startup which provides “enterprise grade”, definition of whic
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by zxienin 7y ago
Is the implication that wrt adoption curve: GraphQL > REST?
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by zxienin 7y ago
> Zero SAP knowledge necessary That’s a tall claim. If one has ever worked (or tried to) within SAP world, you know what I am talking about.
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SAP Graph: API Sandbox on preview(beta.graph.sap)
92 points by zxienin 7y ago|53 comments
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by zxienin 7y ago
It’s a mistake to assume anything free on hyperscalers like GCP. Even ones with free tag. A future price tag needs to be baked into your current designs. Case in point, recent pricing change of GKE cluster management fee. ( https:&#x2F

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