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Not after reading about the Clinton’s on it, no.

I don’t particularly like the Clintons, but unlike breitbart, I do consider them to be human beings.

What both sides though? The alt-right isn’t in opposition to anything mainstream, they are anti-democratic and should be treated the same way antifa, farc, isis and others are.

Every time democracy fails to shut down movements like the alt-right, things end badly for democracy itself. The most used throve is stuff like nazism and fascism, but history actually have a lot of better examples.

Because both Napoleon and Caesar effectively ended democracy with applause, unlike Hitler.

I think it’s extremely dangerous to treat anti-democratic forces as equal to democratic ones. I’m a conservative by the way, so it’s not like I’m not conserved about the liberal bias in the tech sector. But the debates we have these days, about forcing platforms to include outright anti-democratic values is crazy.

Why would it be real when it was leaked by breitbart? Are the lizard people also real? Is the earth flat? Do vaccines cause autism?

This is old school, but how about a blog?

We were talking government not private sector. I have no clue who’s ahead on private in Europe. :)

The ability to extend you own AD to parts of Azure, and call Microsoft directly when something is broken, is immensely valuable compared to AWS.

Azure is mainly for .NET though, but they also have first class support for Node.js, which integrates directly with stuff like application insights.

I use Azure professionally, but I use a range of things personally, and I think I’d never pick anything but Azure for enterprise if my shop was mainly Microsoft. If you aren’t primarily Microsoft, I’d pick AWS.

Microsoft “won” the European market though, by being extremely quick to adopt European policies and offering really, really great support. I took AWS a while to get out of the legal grey area, and their support is still pretty mediocre because they rely too much on automation, which may be more efficient, but being able to call Seattle directly is a tremendous selling point for governments. Also having office365 helped Microsoft sell Azure quite a bit.

Google on the other hand are still in the legal grey area, and they’re even more automated than AWS.

I say “won”, because there isn’t a clear monopoly in Europe, and AWS allied themselves with a bunch of lobbying powerhouses like Deloitte and EY, but I’d say Azure is still far ahead.

Are they admitting defeat, or are they simply removing another bit of their business that can’t be profitable without exploiting privacy?

To me it seems like google is forcing more and more on selling services rather than user information.

Sellers will always be greedy, the problem arise when buyers and lenders take risks.

In Denmark housing is way higher than it was before the crisis, but wages aren’t really up.

The market has now reached the point where the middle class can’t afford to buy a home near our biggest cities.

Of course it’s going to end poorly. Especially with the aging population. If we didn’t own an appartment in the central part of time that was bought at 30% lower than the current prices I’d honestly be shitting bricks.

Well for one you can rewrite git history, and there is no independent verification of what you change.

I do, and we use that sort of hash trees for a lot of bi temporal data keeping.

I wouldn’t call it blockchain though.

You should probably look at page 53 before you interpret this as praise.

Probably, English is my third language so I’m kind of bad at it. You should see how it looks without the autocorrect. :p

I think we should stop wasting public funds on blockchain and here is why.

Records are important in the public sector, but what’s more important is how we handle changes. This is because changes to a record in one system, might affect changes in a range of other systems, and what most governments are building to handle this is advanced observer patterns, where a central messaging bus keeps tracks of alterations and informs subscribers.

Like if you get sick with depression, a case worker will register this and a range of things will happen where different departments and systems are notified to build a case flow for your way back to work. Other systems will ensure you get your welfare and so on.

Or if you trade property, a ton of systems needs to be notified about it.

Blockchain suck at this because they are extremely inefficient.

Now the records are important too, but today, bi temporal data is playing an ever increasing part in the public sector.

What this does is keep every change on record. Allowing case workers to look up something, and get a timeline representing every state of your record.

Blockchains are surprisingly bad at this as well. It keeps the records, but trolling through them and finding the relevant ones is just incredibly bad compared to traditional databases.

Decentralisation is probably never going to happen. Especially because the public sector will never do a proof of work concept since the environmental cost would be political suicide. If you’re doing a voting blockchain, then the public sector will never relinquish control, and if you don’t do that, then you might as well not use blockchain.

So I think you can actually go through the use case chart on page 53 of the pdf and still find a lot of areas where you should say no.

I’m danish and I think half of our muniplacities as well as our government and all of our banks (banking IT is extremely similar to public sector IT except its narrow focus/range) have done proof-of-concepts on blockchain for the past decade. No one has found a good use case that couldn’t have been run without blockchain yet. I sometimes wonder how much money we’ve wasted trying to find a usecase, and it’s a lot, and I can’t tell you why we’ve done that.

I mean, if only we’ve spend all those resources on something useful.

And the XPS comes with the dell quality gamble. We use them a work, and around 20% of them just don’t hold up.

I think it’s crazy how bad the laptop market is these days. If you’re barred from Lenovo then you only have two high quality options, MacBooks and surface books and neither run Linux out of the box.

Because it’s hard to market. I mean, you basically want an Apple device with Linux that works like OS X/iOS.

I wanted one too, but eventually I gave up and settled in the apple ecosystem.

Are there no management jobs in the new area? I’m not sure what the IC version of senior manager is, but remote management almost never works out.

Is it a good idea? Yes. But the value of a roommate finding platform isn’t the platform it’s the amount of people who use it.

That’s why most people use traditional social media. A few shares on Facebook and you’ve reached thousands of local people.

So for a business idea, your focus should be on adoption. I mean, any web developer can build a roommate finding website in a few weeks.

I’m probably using the wrong English word, it’s called moms and I don’t know what that’s called in English.

It’s the tax you pay when you trade any product.

People are so different that general advice is always bad advice.

Are they unusually strong? I work in government, we take these allegations really serious. The data we house in the cloud simply can’t be compromised.

We’re apparently home free by using Azure, but I think the responses are justified if the story is fake.

This article is one of the weirdest I've ever read as a dane. We have a vat refund system, that paid out 120 billion danish kroner to companies that weren't meant to have those 120 billion danish kroner.

It was made possible because the audit of every vat refund was just one guy, and that was ridiculous, but those 120 billion still exited our treasury.

It's kind of easy to prove wrong doing on vat, if your company hasn't registered a single transaction, then your company simply isn't owed any vat. Yet the article seems to want to make this complicated...

Why is that?

Gentoo was certainly a terrible fit, but I've had my runs with Debian, ubuntu and fedora as well, and it somehow always ends up being configuration hell, which then breaks with some random update, prompting me to do it all over.

These days it's more than that though. I mean, I'm completely drenched in the apple eco-system, and it's kind of nice to get iMessages on my MacBook and sharing data between devices so easily. I now I could setup something similar with stuff like own cloud, but then I'd have to do that, instead of it just working out the box.

Like I said, I don't dislike linux. I've never really disliked an OS until windows 10, but I just don't bother with technology that isn't designed for user experience anymore.

Like my first smartphone was an android, I don't think I'll ever own an android phone again. :p

You can buy a MacBook Pro 13" 2018 edition with retina and 512gb for 13000 danish kr, if you use the students discount. A similarly specced 13" XPS is around 12000-14000 danish kr.

A 512gb surface book is at least 21000 danish kr, because it only ships with the 15". A 256gb one is around 12000-13000 danish kr.

Are MacBooks really that expensive? The MacBook Pro retina with 516ssd is a lot cheaper than the Microsoft surface book and around similar to the XSP, but the XSP is much lower quality.

Yes, people are different. :)

When I was 20 years younger most developers I knew loved Linux. So maybe she plays in. I know I left gentoo for a Mac in 2006 and I’ve never looked back.

I don’t dislike Linux by the way, I just don’t want to spend time configuring things anymore.

A join in GraphQL looks like this:

{ getOrganisation(args){ name, employees{ Name, Position }}

(I added commas to make it easier to read, but they are not supposed to be there)

I know SQL, so I don’t think it’s necessarily easier, but what is easier, is non-sql-savvy people making efficient queries because GraphQL does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

I don’t think mapping your DB is necessarily a disadvantage.

It provides a lot of benefits in modern web- and mobile-development which is where you’d use something like GraphQL.

JavaScript works better when it knows the DB schemes, not only is it more efficient for your developers but it’s also higher quality because it allows fewer fuckups. If you’re building your DB schemes anyway, you may as well take advantage of GraphQLs other features.

And it’s in a familiar language, any web developer can do a GraphQL query, and it’ll be efficient too. I think most developers can do a SQL queries too, but not always efficient. You can get a long way by going to W3 or google and hacking your way through a query to get what you want. Our business analytics and our LEAN process people do it, but I’ve seen some real horrors build that way by people who knew SQL but not databases.

Build what you want, but there is a reason GraphQL is popular.

Most developers I know use MacBooks, my own staff included.

Most JS developers quite like stuff like react, and most api developers like graphQL. So while developers may dislike Facebook as a company, they don’t seem to dislike Facebook tools.

I don’t think the platform that developers like will necessarily take of though.

I think you may have been fortunate enough to use a lot of well documented rest APIs.

I work in the public sector, we integrate with more than 600 different IT systems. I’d say around 10% of them have the documentation they ought to.

With graphql, the API is the documentation.

On our own end, it’s improvee production and quality because it’s faster to build an API with it, that lives up to our standards for APIs. It’s also harder to fuck it up without realizing because it’s typed and forces schemes.

The last advantage is that it allows for an easy way to get the data you need from a general query, that might not be important in a lot of places, but when you build apps for workers who use them in a rural setting, it’s kind of nice to minimize the data they need to transmit to the bare essentials. You could do that with a rest api, but it would take a lot more time to implement.