Disagree 50%. Before you write any code (Corp World) you need a few diagrams detailing what and how you're going to build a thing. These lead to discussions and are refined/evolve into something you can start coding up.
I struggle understanding cloud-based storage on anything personally mine. I want my music where I am. Same for video, and ESPECIALLY documents. Still using Windows Media Player, too.
I have a home-baked system like this, mostly just files in folders and in some cases HTML-based indexes. It's not perfect and nowhere near as usable as Recall looks, but it works for me nonetheless.
I won't use Recall. It's just another Web app, and thus subject to the whims of the owners (selling my data, injecting ads when other sources of income fail, etc). I would be much more amenable to a desktop app I have absolute control over. They keep my data (assuming I were to use Recall) on their servers - but no comments I found talk about data protection or what happens to my online data if they fail, sell or merge with another company.
These days if I don't get absolute control of my data it's just not going to happen.
A model I would be happy with is a desktop app that syncs with a mobile app, encrypts everything, and is purchasable with a one-time payment.
I'm tired of Internet-everything. It always ends in disappointment for me.
I have a similar system except I make use of Zim Wiki for managing it. It's not on mobile but I don't do much of any import on mobile.
I have to agree with you, I didn't comment before because I didn't want to criticise something that has had a ton of work put into it.
If I was going to use something like this it would have to be local only with the potential to backup to the cloud of my choice, and sync (e2e encrypted) to other devices.
I'm not signing up for a subscription or web version for something I'm capable of doing with text files and folders on a computer, or in a notebook by hand.
I do think a ton of work has gone into this and it looks polished but I don't see a business model in it.
For what its worth, your data lives primarily in IndexedDB in your browser. It's then synced on the server for backup and sync between devices. And I don't have any intention on selling data or ads.
Well put. He's my 2nd favourite composer, behind Dvorak. Also this excerpt from the article made me smile - "which makes one regret that Rachmaninoff neglected chamber music in his maturity."
Bet if he hadn't everyone'd howl about how he should've left chamber music alone...
I've done so much work in this space that I wrote up a patern that I modify as needed. The only data-specific issues you'll encounter are the underwriting rules - each insurer has their own secret sauce that they guard very closely.
Indeed so. I've been following nuclear in Germany ever since those railroad protests when they tried to transport nuclear waste from somewhere to somewhere else which I thought was crazy (the protests).
The part I felt had merit is that none of Europe's lofty solutions to safely storing/disposing of the waste output ever came to anything. I believe until this day that industry is still trying to work out how to dig 30km down to safely store the waste underground.
That said I haven't kept up to date on any progress or better solutions.
These geological repositories are such political bullshit theater. Its fucking sad.
The are actually more expensive then simply developing the reactors to burn up that fuel.
Its just crazy that we live in this world.
The US collected money from nuclear plants for 50 years for disposal, and had plenty of money to develop waste burning reactors. And yet that money is totally unused. While politicians dead-lock on this idiotic Yucca Mountain project.
After more than 50 years of nuclear power plants in use we can say that there is no nuclear waste problem. The ‘waste’ has been stored above ground for decades and nothing has happened. It’s clearly safe. We should just keep doing what we’re doing. No need to dig expensive holes.
While I believe this is the most safe option right now - some candidate dumping grounds have failed spectacularly (the Asse), this of course only works as long we are vigilant and also pay the upkeep for storage locations for many millenia. Both from environmental and safety concerns.
These are technical controls - are you sure they're the right ones for your organisation - - or even needed? Organisations that comply with the GDPR typically employ a data protection officer - the person responsible for creating or overseeing the creation and ongoing maintenance of a privacy impact assessment. That feeds into requirements long before any code is written, let alone implementing other procedural or technical controls.
I was in that self same queue and also made it through surprisingly quick, only for my flight to Frankfurt being cancelled. Back at LHR now for round two.
I note that many blog on their personal web site. I decided against that back in the early 2000's, when it got popular - I just didn't want to face not having a clue what to write about next. The site's always been hosted with a commercial hosing provider. I've travelled a bit, and that meant my site could live on even if I moved yet again.
So I just use it to write down stuff I thought inetresting. I add new stuff very occasionally, and refer to it often, to this day. It's expanded (and sometimes contracted) with non-work stuff (hobbies, photos for the overseas family - although I could do more on that front).
And so I have no real expectation of myself to continually provide new content, or keep up with the latest hosting software and [at home] infrastructure. It receives lots of traffic for the 4x4 guide I wrote in 1998, and the consulting reference pages. I don't care for the traffic, but glad people find it useful. As long as it remains useful to me I'll keep it going, and call it a success.
Exanples -
https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Protection_System.aspx (insurance), and
https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/payment_System_1.aspx (payments)