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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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CBC News Alerts
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InfoQ Articles (Software Architecture)
- Presentation: Quarkus 08-Jul-20 03:40 pm EDTSanne Grinovero shows Quarkus in action, and explains how it works. Grinovero demonstrates what Quarkus can do by leveraging high density deployments via GraalVM native images or by targeting the traditional JVM. By Sanne Grinovero
- Microfrontends at Vonage - Yoav Yanovski at Vue.JS Amsterdam 08-Jul-20 02:07 pm EDTYoav Yanovski, senior technical manager at Vonage, recently presented at Vue.js Amsterdam 2020 the rationale behind moving from a monolithic front-end towards a micro-front-end architecture. Yanovski also detailed micro-front-end’s architectural options, the tradeoffs involved in each option, and the choices made at Vonage. By Bruno Couriol
- Presentation: Introducing and Scaling a GraphQL BFF 08-Jul-20 01:28 pm EDTMichelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. By Michelle Garrett
- Article: Elm in Action - Book Review and Q&A with Richard Feldman 08-Jul-20 01:00 pm EDTThe book Elm in Action by Richard Feldman provides a gentle, thorough introduction to Elm for web developers, and walk them through the creation of a full-featured photo-browsing application. Elm is a purely functional language for creating web applications. Elm touts the absence of runtime errors, a sound type system with strong type inference and delightfu […]
- New H.266 Video Coding Standard Claimed 50% More Efficient Than H.265 08-Jul-20 09:00 am EDTVersatile Video Coding, also known as H.266, MPEG-I Part 3, and Future Video Coding (FVC), is the successor to H.265 and promises to reduce data requirements by 50% while keeping the same level of visual quality as its predecessor. By Sergio De Simone
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