pbowyer

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   by pbowyer 8y ago

   > I'm honestly wondering what the law previously said regarding data protection. In the businesses I'm working with, I'm finding the biggest problems with GDPR aren't with GDPR - they're because the business wasn
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   by pbowyer 8y ago

   That's the nature of law. It's a set of principles, it's not black and white in the way techies want the world to be. Painful when needing to implement? Absolutely (not my favourite either, I want definite answers). The way i
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   How to Work with Developers – A Guide for Non-Developers(dev.to)

   1 points by pbowyer 9y ago|0 comments
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   by pbowyer 9y ago

   I disagree based on Stack Overflow's own description of itself: "Stack Overflow is for professional and enthusiast programmers, people who write code because they love it. We feel the best Stack Overflow questions have a bit of so
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   by pbowyer 9y ago

   > because it was too broad for him Too broad has been the bane of my questions on StackOverflow. [0] As cpburns2009 says in a sibling comment: > When you're working with an unfamiliar technology, you frequently don't even kn
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   OptiCSS, a template-aware CSS optimizer(github.com)

   1 points by pbowyer 9y ago|0 comments
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   CSS Blocks(css-blocks.com)

   41 points by pbowyer 9y ago|2 comments
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   by pbowyer 9y ago

   Which static site generators are you considering?
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   by pbowyer 9y ago

   Thanks for the info re watermarking and the links. Re watermarking, would it prevent the overwriting example? If you could do conditional updates via the API then yes, because you could say "WHERE the record timestamp = the timestamp w
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    Ask HN: How would you keep 2 APIs in sync?

    3 points by pbowyer 9y ago|2 comments
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    For the API layer: If you're sure that the app is going to be for the long-term, and you know what you're going to build (rather than a prototype), choose a SOLID framework. Having been burned by others, my choice is Symfony. It h
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    Ask HN: Bi-directional data sync, how did you do it?

    3 points by pbowyer 9y ago|0 comments
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    The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch – Draft-Camelot-holy-grenade-00(tools.ietf.org)

    4 points by pbowyer 9y ago|0 comments
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    Yes. 1Password if you're reading this: your Windows users love you. We need some love in return :)
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    Search for "Pons and Fleischmann" to learn more about Cold Fusion :)
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    Notion 2.0 released(notion.so)

    3 points by pbowyer 9y ago|0 comments
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    Workly: A really simple way to move a stand-alone function/class to a web worker(github.com)

    1 points by pbowyer 9y ago|0 comments
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    A great place to start is what companies like the Financial Times have been doing with Fastly. By pushing authentication to the edge [1] you can cache more. If you're receiving a lot of data in that you need to log and analyse later, y
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    Backblaze cuts B2 download price in half(backblaze.com)

    99 points by pbowyer 9y ago|88 comments
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    Thanks, going to have a go at re-sketching with intermediate nodes!
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    > We were solving this problem with Google's knowledge graph where we had to fit movie dataset in DB. The film industry has so many roles (director, producer, actor, cinematographer, and so on), that having a table for each, with ma
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    > If you have the same use case of private data but have technical changes (i.e. a different subcontractor handling the processing) then you do not need a new consent. That is not how some are reading it. It's not how I've unde
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    You can't use one of the lawful basis of consent for this? https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    > As a freelancer who works with mostly small clients, I really wish that there was clear, official communication on what sorts of common practices need to change (or not) and examples of solutions that small businesses can implement to
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    > As a company that uses third-party services for data processing (which includes almost every piece of SaaS-type software) you have to sign a data processing agreement with each of those, which can mean considerable effort. At least for
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    Proton Native – React Native for the Desktop(proton-native.js.org)

    1 points by pbowyer 9y ago|0 comments
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    Thanks for the offer, I got 75% through writing you an email and finally managed to get some data exported via https://overpass-turbo.eu/ , so I'll work on that for now. Thanks though!
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    I like the sound of this, like an object graph of data from OSM. > I am not sure how well this type of system could work in open street map. Is it too rigid? Or would there be too much proliferation of types? Classification is always har
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    Wow that is complicated! Thanks for sharing, it's good to know how time consuming this could be if I take it further. It sounds like Overpass is the way to get the data I need - once I figure out how to reference it in Overpass (networ
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    by pbowyer 9y ago

    Thanks, that was fascinating to read (even allowing for my poor french). That is the kind of data I'm looking to get out.