[GTALUG] programming system questions

[o1bigtenor]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 3:06 AM Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > If I understand he/she wants to recreate an app.  Does that mean reverse engineer? Are you trying to recreate someone else's app without direct access to that app?
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>> > Are you trying to examine interactions with the app and predict what the app will do, and hence "simulate" the app?
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>> > You might also consider creating a _smart_ proxy, that lets you cache results locally such that if you ask for the same thing a second time it's comes back faster.
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>> > Additionally by implementing a proxy , you can populate your own copy of what ever data the original service is providing and study that for the purposes of reverse engineering.
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>> > This sounds like a great conversation to have over a $drink, and/or in front of a white board.
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>> I like your last idea except I would have to travel about 2500 km and
>> that produces its own 'fun'.
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>> Thank you for your ideas/assistance and if you know an easy way to
>> communicate 'chat at remote' - - - well I'm listening.
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> I just came across this. Tim Berners Lee has just introduced his new SOLID prototype for social media connections. You can register and check it out. Its kind of spartan and developer oriented at the moment but is backwards compatible while it looks to be forward thinking.
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> https://solid.inrupt.com/get-a-solid-pod

This looks like it could become something interesting - - - if it is allowed to.
My level of distrust re: web security and my privacy is high enough that I will
be waiting for a while before I jump on the band wagon.

Dee