outsideoflife

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by outsideoflife 8y ago
Does XFCE suffer with the Gnome3 affliction of having a top menu bar and a program menu bar underneath? I am left looking through a letter box at my software. Unity was good at this...Gnome3 is not
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
Don't blame the email 1) Before email I had more letters and phone calls 2) If you disrupt your flow to answer emails and that is not mandated by your manager, that is your fault. 3) If you disrupt your flow to answer emails because yo
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
But they could charge you a reasonable fee before. Now it will be free!
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
Depends on your business. I didn't find it as hard as PCI compliance for instance
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
I'm using pyvenv even though it has started warning me I should move. I won't change from it for exactly the reasons in this comic. When I do a new OS install I will try pipenv again...but it dind't work well for me the first
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
> Laws like GDPR are written in such away that make them open to "legal trolls" Except with GDPR all you could do is report them to the member states governing body. So no trolling. > Very Specific and not open to interpenet
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
> You are employing a DPO if you are compliant. In the UK the ICO is the governing body, and they say I don't need one. From their guidance linked below >The GDPR introduces a duty for you to appoint a data protection officer (DP
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
> But every HTTP server handles personal data But not all of them have a good reason to log it. /dev/null
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
> There are lots of guides out there designed for humans. > It's not even remotely okay to use random people's blog posts as a compliance strategy. Then use the simple, human friendly guide from the body who will be enforcin
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
Under what circumstances are you expecting to receive a $5m dollar fine? To me (who is assessing this risk at a UK SME) the idea of an SME receiving this kind of fine is absurd. As the poster above said, the law asks for proportionate fin
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
> I think this highlights the EU vs US perspective on Government nicely And the differences in the legal systems specifically. I think this is why a lot of HN commentators are finding the GDPR vague. In the US rule based regulations are
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
Larger than small business here, we are not employing a DPO and we are complying with GDPR.
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
I'm afraid I disagree entirely. If your business is aggregating data in order to sell more effective advertising then you are walking a line and need a lawyer. If your business is selling widgets and you collect personal details in ord
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
That sort of depends if you were complying with the UK Data Protection Act (1998), or any of the other European acts stemming from the 1995 directive, already. GDPR is only an incremental step from there. It would appear that lots of people
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by outsideoflife 8y ago
As someone mentioned in the comments in the article I think it is very common for people to use LibreOffice Calc to work with CSV because Excel does not handle UTF-8 all that well. In Libre Office you can open an Excel workbook and export a
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Then there was the London to Birmingham railway line, built largely by hand, which was supposed to be more work by less people in less time. "Peter Lecount, an assistant engineer of the London Birmingham railway, produced a number of -
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> to lift weights that would be impossible to handle by most power cranes in operation today. TlDr; Modern construction techniques do not require lifting heavy blocks of stone, so no-one makes a machine to do it.
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I guess that is partly because of changes in architectural tastes. Large staircases in grand houses are more as likely to be concrete or steel today. I suspect most woodworkers would never be asked to create something like that today, so pe
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Unless you have a reason for keeping them /dev/null is probably the best answer. If you have a reason for keeping them think about who needs to see them again and on what timescale. As other poster mentioned legal reasons override
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Ubuntu 18.04 Beta distros released(theregister.co.uk)
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> People post personal details about their lives here Which they explicitly choose to do > some use their real names as their username Which is not required to use the site > the site asks for email addresses But you don't hav
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Could you elaborate on how this is a restriction on freedom of speech? How is an 'information site' affected? Take HN for example, when I signed up they didn't even ask my name. They probably log IP addresses and would be ent
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
> forced to supply results in the way "people want", counter to its financial interests. I get my water from a private company. Should they be forced to supply me with clean drinking water, counter to it's financial intere
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
And Google shopping is full of original content?
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I really learn much better from a paper book, so I use Humble Bundle as a cheap way to preview the books! It is still worth 15 bucks!
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
General compliance advice 1) Act in good faith. DPA fines seem to have been to people who had a blatant disregard for data protection and their customers, not those who tried hard but committed some technical breach. 2) Whenever new rules c
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
Yes, but it was a token gesture to DPA and in reality 1) It was not their main role 2) It was a token gesture, someone to address post too! Every consulting firm I know is trying to sell GDPR services atm...
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
1) Judgement 2) Prioritization 3) If non-urgent then take the time to make good decisions 4) Discussion in person is best, phone is second best, email is worst 5) Don't underestimate the work other people do, or their attitude to it
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
The OECD suggest that one measure of good taxation is it's efficiency. Progressively taxing profits seems to meet that goal. 'Cost to the government' sounds tricky to measure however
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by outsideoflife 9y ago
I am more than happy to embrace static typing, I wish it was an option for Python (Yes I know about hint's)! I think I am going to do some beginner level Java and get the basics of the language, and then switch over to Kotlin and learn

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