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stravidon The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR

You are right and in that case you should also have a process in place to delete the PII from the additional sheets of paper. I'm inclined to keep PII out of logs in the first place but am unsure how to proceed. Either just don't log any data / parameters or implement some kind of whitelist like you would with passwords and other secrets.

stravidon The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR

> Under the terms of the GDPR, user benefit is not required. I can log any PII I'd like as long as the user's given consent for it to sit in that log, or for it to be used in some process that reads from that log.

Read my comment again, it does not say a user benefit is required. What it says is that you need a specific purpose for processing PII. A user can only give you consent for a specific purpose. What is the purpose that results in his PII ending up in an immutable log file? Asking for general consent without a specific purpose does not work with GDPR.

> That's the other part of the problem. A healthy regulatory system needs some way to say "well, you think I'm bending the rules, but I'm actually compliant in this complex way you hadn't considered". If a GDPR regulator just doesn't know much about software development, and thinks that any rollout-induced delay is undue, how do I argue against that?

If you feel you are being treated unfairly you will probably argue through your lawyer. As a technical person I would love it if the GDPR is black and white. It would allow me to know if I comply or not but real life is hardly black and white. So instead of being upset with things I can't change I will just do my best to comply.

PS: I don't understand the downvote.

stravidon The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR

> * I (like most companies) have a variety of unstructured and/or immutable logs. I can't just DROP FROM table WHERE. Is it acceptable to delete this data by waiting a few days for a retention period to expire, or do I have to retrofit deletion functionality in?

In order to be allowed to store PII (even if it's in logs) you need a specific purpose. Why do you put PII in logs? What benefit does the user have?

> * What if the retention period is a week, or a month? What if I've been advised to establish those longer retention periods for other reasons?

If there is a legal requirement to keep PII (for example accounting) you can/must keep it as long as the legal requirement demands. If there is no legal requirement you have to delete PII, there is nothing that trumps that.

> * If a bug is found in the data deletion workflow, is it an undue delay to say we'll tackle it next sprint? Do we need to drop everything and make it a priority now?

If your next sprint starts 1 month down the road the regulator won't be happy. If it's next week and your GDPR doesn't have other gaping holes a reasonable regulator won't bat an eye.

> * Once we've resolved a personal data deletion bug, is it an undue delay to roll it out slowly over a week? Does it matter if this is our standard rollout process, or if there's a risky hotfix process we're deliberately choosing not to use?

Are you playing for time or doing responsible software development? If a regulator thinks you are bending the rules good luck, otherwise nobody will demand of you doing dangerous stuff.

I know, there are a lot of things open to interpretation. But as my lawyer told me: "There are people getting a speeding ticket for 5 above the limit and others who don't. Try to stick to the limit and make sure you are seen as one of the second category."

stravidon Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad

Re: International text input:

I only use keyboards with the english international layout although I'm from Austria and the german layout would be the natural one. Therefore the keyboard layout in the OS is also set to english international. I do this because I program.

And still I'm very happy about the easy access for special characters, because in literally every email I have to use one of ß, ä, ö or ü.

stravidon Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

easydrum[1] is a similar student project dedicated to drums. As far as I know it uses MIDI and the flash plugin to connect to electronic drums.

[1] http://easydrum.binsofrei.at/

stravidon Hair

There is a notice at the top with a GitHub link.

https://github.com/MathiasPaumgarten/hair

stravidon How to Prototype an App in 1 hour: meet POP

Can I use it on an iPad? For non phone app prototypes an iPhone screen seems rather small.

stravidon Why HTML5 is the best platform for rapid game development

Canvas is not the only option. I'm currently developing a racing game where you can build your own race track in HTML5 with my colleagues for our final university project and we don't use canvas at all.

The whole game is built upon SVG, CSS3 (transform3d) and CoffeeScript and it works pretty fine, even on the iPad which is also the target platform. The limiting factor with this combination is the number of DOM elements. We are currently considering to render our racing tracks as a single image so we can remove the several SVG paths we currently use for this.

If you want to take a look you can find the source on GitHub[1] or play the game[2]. Currently only Chrome and iPad are supported. But that's only because we haven't added all vendor prefixes yet.

[1] https://github.com/stravid/slotcars [2] http://slotcars.herokuapp.com/

stravidon Codename: Obtvse

There is a difference between taking an idea and a design. Put the versions next to each other and tell me they don't look like the same.

stravidon Codename: Obtvse

If you look at both versions it should be clear what I mean with rip-off. I don't care if you implement the "ideas panel" or whatever yourself.

But if I you take the design and make your version look the same, then it's a rip-off. Yes, you modified it. But please put both versions next to each other and tell me they don't look like each other. As long as you don't have an original design it's a rip-off for me.

stravidon Codename: Obtvse

Copying my comment from dcurtis thread:

You say "In fact, it goes against the very ethos of Hacker News.", do you think your action aligns with the "ethos of Hacker News"? Do you think it's okay to rip-off something just because you think it shouldn't be invite only?

stravidon Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis

You say "In fact, it goes against the very ethos of Hacker News.", do you think your action aligns with the "ethos of Hacker News"?

Do you think it's okay to rip-off something just because you think it shouldn't be invite only?

stravidon Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?

It's fast and works. Since discovering it two years ago I still haven't found a reason to switch.

stravidon The all-new Basecamp is live

I guess this is what you were looking for: http://basecamp.com/transition-steps

stravidon Show HN: Web Timer, a Chrome extension to keep track of how you use the Web

Thank you very much! I love the fact that the code is on GitHub. Do you plan adding features or should I make a fork for things like:

# hours browsed per day history

Anyway, thanks again!

stravidon Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released

The Vintage package (vi editing for Sublime Text 2) is now also on GitHub: https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage

stravidon Show HN: Track your Git commit statistics

I added an example graph. Thanks for pointing out!

stravidon Show HN: Track your Git commit statistics

Currently there are only time based statistics like commits per day!

I really like your idea. There would be no need for an account on the user side so they could try it out right away!

stravidon Show HN: Track your Git commit statistics

No repo/branch data is tracked. But the time when the commit happened is saved. So it's possible to break it down to year/week/day/hour. You can set your timezone in the settings to get correct times.

Currently a commits per day graph is available.

And I agree with your suggestion for the homepage, it should be clearer and have graphics or example graphs. Thanks!

stravidon Show HN: Track your Git commit statistics

After one of my articles (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965626) got on HN, I built this little website with a friend. It's very simple and only tracks the commit count with the help of Git hooks.

Looking forward to any comments!

stravidon Personal Git Commit Statistics

That's true. A big advantage of this solution over, let's say a self written post-commit hook, is the past. It doesn't matter when you start collecting this data, thanks to Git you will have data about yourself from the past. With a post-commit hook that's not the case.

I'm still not sure what's the best way to go, but thanks for your comments!

stravidon Personal Git Commit Statistics

That's a perfectly fine solution, but not exactly what I want. With this solution I would have to keep a list of repositories up to date. And in order to update my data I would always need to clone every repository, run the command and put all numbers together.

I like automation, so I looked for a different solution.

stravidon Show HN: weekend project, an attempt at a simple bed time calculator

Same here, I'm also a poor student with a really dumb phone :-)

I just think the majority would use such a site on their mobile. That's why I go mobile first. And I won't charge money, it's more like a little side project to try out new stuff!

stravidon Show HN: weekend project, an attempt at a simple bed time calculator

Interesting, I'm currently working myself on a mobile friendly clone of http://sleepyti.me/

Because using either of the two sites is not easy on a small screen. And who has his laptop with him when lying in bed and checking the wake up time.

stravidon Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion

MOTOROLA Launch Date: 1928

GOOGLE Launch Date: 7/9/1998

stravidon All the things task apps aren't getting right vs. paper

Having to download a native app and having to create an account are two entirely separate matters.

Yes they are two seperate matters. But they still have a problem in common: They introduce barriers you have to overcome until you can use / test the app. I guess an app without such a barrier is doing a lot better.

And FTR, part of the advantage of native apps is that they'll never be relegated to "just another browser tab" or lost in a sea of favicons. When I'm going to invest time in a workflow / application / product, I almost always prefer the native app to web app for this particular reason.

Valid point, this is one of the downsides when you focus on non-native apps. It will be interesting to see if this changes when web apps get more traction. If they ever do.

stravidon All the things task apps aren't getting right vs. paper

Why are these simple apps native although they would perfectly work as a web app. I don't want to download something to test it. And I don't want to sign up, regardless of how simple the sign up process is, we have the power to build things were you can get started right away.

Just use Local Storage to get the user started right away. When he decides to sign up you can copy the local data to the server side storage.

stravidon Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?

Since I like a fast, non-cluttered, browser I have only one addon installed in Chrome. "No More Tabs" protects me of opening 40+ tabs and telling myself all the time "Don't close it, you might need it again!"

stravidon [dead]

Is this a self written solution? I googled for "Clickmap", as seen in your taskbar, without a matching result.

stravidon Visualising sorting algorithms

http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

Insertion, Selection, Bubble, Shell, Merge, Heap, Quick and Quick3 sort compared and visualized.