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Facebook Move May Cause Greater Secrecy About Data (Ab)Use
ata use in violation of Facebook’s licensing agreement for developers has prompted the company to intervene to halt distribution of an insurance industry app that would have used end-user data (shared by consent) to track social media behaviour and qualify some for discounts on insurance rates. Facebook claims it has a policy to prohibit such use — but the move raises questions around privacy and whether or not Facebook acted in its own interests; possibly masking a hidden intent to mentize similar apps later itself. Regardless, one consequence is likely: nothing stops an app developer from not disclosing the true intent behind acquiring user data nor even offering a misleading or untrue rationale for data capture. This could simply mean England’s “Admiral Insurance” is last case of this kind we hear about.
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C# or VB.NET?
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o matter how much time passes it seems, the question is always being asked on one project or another: is Java better than Visual Basic? Is C# better than VB.NET?
Linked-In has been playing host to a lengthy, but at times interesting discussion on this question which seems to have an obvious, short answer. Yet in the discussion are useful lessons for less experienced programmers that should be taken to heart…
Some highlight replies I selected from the whole thread:
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- Presentation: Refactoring Organizations - A Netflix Study 25-Jul-17 11:26 pm EDTJosh Evans uses Netflix as a case study to illustrate how specific strategies, framed as technical analogs, have been employed to maximize engineering agility, velocity, and impact. These strategies and solutions are meant to provide a blueprint for organizational success. By Josh Evans
- QCon New York 2017: The Ordering of Events in Systems 25-Jul-17 02:56 pm EDTKavya Joshi, software engineer at Samsara, explored in detail the happens-before principal at QCon New York 2017. She explained how the distributed key-value store, Riak, uses vector clocks to establish causality across nodes. She also looked at concurrency primitives in Go, explaining how they happens-before constraints naturally. By Andrew Morgan
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