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by groestl 8y ago
> The last mile isn't solvable. This does not really apply to your movie name example, but in a text machines could try to escape to a meta-level, like humans sometimes do: "There is an old gaelic saying, which, roughly transla
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by groestl 8y ago
Nothing of that sorts, but: The GDPR applies only to non-EU organizations when they specifically target people in the EU, e.g. local currency payment, shipment to the EU, local support hotline. This usually requires contracting services fro
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by groestl 8y ago
> ... for what is essentially a couple of web servers and a database Interestingly, while the author compares k8s to an SQL database, they actually do not deploy a DB. It's all fun an giggles until you deploy a DB.
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by groestl 8y ago
I find that distinction very much of interest, and sure enough, RMS also has an explicit text available which deals with that matter more directly [0]. While free software protects the freedoms of the user only, copyleft software protects t
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by groestl 8y ago
Maybe I missed something, but this essay seems to deal with the relationship of Open Source v Free Software, not Free Software v Copyleft Software.
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by groestl 8y ago
> collecting memories than building businesses The lifestyle entrepreneur is a phenomenon that you can find in the US as well.
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by groestl 8y ago
When designing such a system, the immediate failure mode is obvious: at some point, someone will read data not meant for them. As every feature on FB needs to take "View as" into account when handling their own permissions, a lot
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by groestl 8y ago
Relevant comment from a thread a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043293
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by groestl 8y ago
People would just write tests which can never fail, and (in the best case) add the assertions in the end, one by one.
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by groestl 8y ago
That's the thing, if my test is green on the first try, I assume something is horribly horribly wrong..
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by groestl 8y ago
We had that experience with Spring, which was pretty painless. One FTE, 3 weeks, ~1/2 mio LOC, and included a Java major version bump.
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by groestl 8y ago
Even more fun with names: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-tell-someones-ag... (2014) HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817959
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by groestl 8y ago
Software that is used, changes, because successful software influences the world around it, which in turn changes it's requirements. So typically, even if a team gets it right the first time (which by itself requires enormous effort),
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by groestl 8y ago
I'm not sure I follow the first paragraph, but what I'm trying to say is that the JVM can, at any point, present an unchecked exception, or an error. In that case, at the very least, all resources have to be released, and nothing
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by groestl 8y ago
I absolutely loathe whenever I come across an IOException. I _know_ that something can go wrong, everything will go wrong at some point, so my code needs to crash appropriately, everywhere. Nobody has to tell me about that, so no need for I
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by groestl 8y ago
This is better, but it could have been the original exception all along, given the rare number of cases in real-world code where the call site actually knows how to recover.
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by groestl 8y ago
> Don't rethrow the same exception. Handle it. It you want to handle it by throwing another internal unchecked exception, that's fine- No, that's not fine. Typically, the layer immediately wrapping the throwing code has no
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by groestl 8y ago
Since you mention the Germans: Their process of working through the past ("Vergangenheitsbewältigung") very much includes remembering the victims, massacres and non-heros, as well as embarrassement and remorse, while spending very
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by groestl 8y ago
The biggest challenge, in my experience, is explaining the weak consistency guarantees to stakeholders, especially in a QA setting (e.g. product owner demos the product to colleagues, numbers are not immediately up-to-date).
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by groestl 8y ago
Interesting that this is controversial here, but the reasoning goes like this: peace and fewer civil conflicts allow for stronger institutions, such as schools. Education amplifies this even more, and strenghtens trust in institutions. In s
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by groestl 8y ago
I also think that (some aspects of) capitalism play a role in this, but another large factor is probably improved access to education, especially education of girls.
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by groestl 8y ago
I'm referring to the "Sniff test of self-recognition" (STSR), which has been proposed by Gatti in [Gat16] and run on a very small sample of dogs. Horowitz has proposed another testing method, derived from STSR, in [Hor17]. [H
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by groestl 8y ago
As our testing procedures improve, we find out more and more about the cognitive abilities of animals, and have since found self-awareness in chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins, magpies, and recently, through sniff tests, dogs. I find it not
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by groestl 8y ago
I like PostgreSQL, especially when you include documentation, software development and release process in the definition of design.
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by groestl 8y ago
I'm not arguing against any of that, including your statement that the GDPR might be the last drop to destroy a compliant-in-spirit company which has been surviving just so. I'm merely questioning the scale of the problem (based o
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by groestl 8y ago
Maybe "Napalm Girl" v Facebook, as an example how chilling effects and cultural differences can lead to an outcome which is perceived as censorship in Europe?
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by groestl 8y ago
The operating part is "should already be state-of-the-art". The typical programmer already knows that personal data is sensitive and treats it that way. Maybe there are some adjustments here and there, or some oversights or things
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by groestl 8y ago
I agree, I mean accident in the sense that the extreme position of the EU Parlament is a breakdown of it's democratic function, caused by a negligent and uninformed majority which allows a strongly opinionated group to take over the le
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by groestl 8y ago
The GDPR was basically a legislative accident, in that the a member of the Greens and strong proponent of privacy and data protection was made rapporteur to the European Parlament for the proposal [0]. There is an interesting documentary on
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by groestl 8y ago
The article itself cites GDPR, Arts. 6(1)(c) which, aside from 6(1)(f), are exactly the provisions that can and should be used to comply with the GDPR while allowing for U.S. discovery. The rest of the text reads like scaremongering to me.

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