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Work Culture and Enabling Software Developers to Contribute(bjoernkw.com)
2 points by BjoernKW 9y ago|0 comments
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
That‘s exactly what I said. For instance, you have to retain accounting records such as invoices even if the invoice recipient asks you to delete the personal data on that invoice. Anything else would open up new avenues for tax fraud.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
GDPR is not only conflicting with some Blockchain use cases but with old-fashioned ledgers and paper-based accounting as well because the same principles apply here, too (an entry cannot be deleted, its effect can merely be reversed). If fo
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
This has nothing to with different legal systems or administrative philosophies but is all about politics. Europe, Germany and France in particular, has a strong history of state involvement in large corporations. I suppose you could call t
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One Cannot Not Design(bjoernkw.com)
1 points by BjoernKW 9y ago|0 comments
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Rhine-Ruhr, Germany, remote or Europe preferred. Remote: Yes IT consultant, web and enterprise software developer with more than 15 years of experience. I'm experienced in JavaScript, HTML5 (AngularJS / Angu
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I hope so. Unfortunately, that won't necessarily be the case. Small businesses have been specifically and routinely targeted by dubious law firms for not complying with certain regulations like legal notice requirements or disclaimers
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
In principle, yes. The intention behind and the principles outlined by the GDPR are good. However, the devil's in the details, specifically in how these principles are supposed to be implemented. Some of these details are not quite cle
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
It's probably safe to err on the side of caution and assume that any application that stores personal data in permanent storage is a data-intensive application.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Rocket Science Group (MailChimp) and Zapier for example already provide GDPR-compliant data processing agreements to their customers. Google and Dropbox promise to do so by May 2018.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Git and GitHub Pages: Simple to set up and use, supports Markdown and code snippets. Other than that I've never really understood the appeal of static site generators for normal websites or blogs that don't have millions of month
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
You're right. Banks just have more money to throw at these problems. They have regular security audits. When (those systems aren't necessarily any more secure by design than 'normal' ones, often even less so) a problem i
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Because of the generally superior command lines and command line tools you get with UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems like Linux or macOS. Recently, Windows has somewhat caught up in that respect but so far nothing beats a native Bash (o
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Sure. That place is called "corporations". They might say otherwise and of course they can't really say: "If you're average at anything come join us." but not only is it very unlikely that the majority in a 10,
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
This brings about an interesting question about signalling in different cultures. In the Western world 'green' generally means 'up' or 'positive' whereas 'red' signifies 'down' or 'nega
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
The problem with the GDPR isn't that it is too far-reaching. The problem is that it isn't clear what companies have to do to comply with the new regulation. Large companies will simply pay their lawyers to deal with this. Small co
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
This blog post on my website was on the Hacker News front page for a few hours and there were no problems at all: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/ My website runs on WordPress with WP
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
That you haven't run into a technology in years doesn't mean it's dead. It just means that that technology for one reason or another just isn't used in your environment. I can tell you that both AngularJS and Angular 2 a
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Perhaps it has something to do with Google pushing Angular 2. I wouldn't suspect anything nefarious though. Maybe, angularjs.org for some reason just put a robots.txt in place that prevents search engines from indexing and Bing just ha
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
> If you write bad code in jQuery you're going to write bad code in a framework. Preventing this is precisely what frameworks are for. A framework - a good one at least - provides a frame that has you code along guidelines (best pra
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Compensating for something.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
If neither the engineer in question knows if his service is worth $50 or $100 dollars an hour nor the client (i.e. the employeer) has any idea of if the service might be worth that price how can we expect the market to settle for a a price
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Tools can be used beyond the area they were originally intended for and still be useful and appropriate. Tim Berners-Lee probably didn't have single-page applications in mind when he invented HTML but hyperlinked documents are also inh
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Even cookies aren't required (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 and https://serverfault.com/questions/163511/what-is-the-mandato... for an explanation). It entirely depends on the
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
> Technology is all about making stuff easier, and web is pretty enabling when it comes to walled gardens and other unethical conduct. The web enabled us to reason about walled gardens in the first place. Before the advent of the web the
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
The material metaphor and the purposeful use of animation ("Motion provides meaning"), dimensions and visual perspective in my opinion is an improvement over merely arranging information in grids. It's a fresh approach to dis
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
> You can share files. In the cloud, each application defines its own half-assed abstraction over data storage, and you're limited to what the service allows you and/or the company was bothered to implement. proposal-2-final-ne
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I'd say that the web page itself is a pretty innovative concept. The concept might've existed before (Apple's HyperCard dates back to 1987 for example) but the web expanded on that by making use of resources distributed acros
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
HTML is not inferior it's different. In the late 90s some people said the same about Java and Java applets in particular. The UX of those however often was significantly worse than that of roughly equivalent (but at that time less dyna
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Yes, the 90s app is faster but can it consume and provide data over a network? Does it afford collaborative editing? Sharing data with others? You can now even use Google Sheets for creating web applications much like Excel has been used fo

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