Great recommendation! I haven't really used our local library because I keep forgetting that it's an option. But, I just checked and it looks like ours has the same Inter-Library Loan process for requesting books.
Thanks, I'm going to try to remember this and start using it more. Hopefully it'll help me both save money and reduce the number of unread books collecting dust on my already full shelves.
I'll use it while comparing multiple projects to guage community support and how "alive" the project is. Stars are obviously not the best representation, but it's a nice way to see how many other people have evualuated the project and are either using it or at least thought it looked good in some way.
This past weekend, while trying to choose a JS framework for a webapp, stars played a decent role in my choice when it came down to two that seemed to have similar features and comparable commit activity. One project has ~200 stars, while the other had ~13,000, which definitely helped push me toward the latter.
That seems like a really cool concept. But also way too free. How are they making money?
Their privacy policy (which was hard to find) doesn't describe how they handle your transaction data, yet almost half of the policy is describing how they're going to collect and disclose (web) information for advertising.
For what it's worth, I'd argue the same should be permitted of a small car maker. If I want to go build my own cars, step 1 should be putting a motor on a chassis and being able to drive forward. Step 1 shouldn't be adding airbags and seat belts to a couple axles.
The safest car is one that can't drive, and the most privacy-friendly software will fail to compile. You should be able to build a functional car before you need to worry about making it as safe as possible, and similarly you should be able to build a functional MVP of your software before you need to worry about compliance with a huge international policy.
Like most car analogies this one has a fatal flaw.
Before you are permitted to use your DIY car you need to comply with safety regulations to avoid harming others. You can keep your unsafe car off the street in your garage, though. Same for software that is not compliant; you just don't get to call it a "product" and let it loose on the public.
If I were running my own company right now, this is probably the approach I would take. I'm a big privacy advocate, but I'm also anti-authoritarian and don't like being forced into things by overbearing laws.
Blocking Europeans sounds a lot more reasonable than having to hire a lawyer and spend double the time and effort just to be compliant while writing a new JavaScript MVC Todo List app.
GDPR is happening because for the last several (10s?) of years companies have been playing fast and loose with people's data. They've had their chance and they've blown it fairly comprehensively.
The people (by and large government is run by the people, for the people, at least in some countries) have had enough. I've had enough, and this is us telling companies they've had their chance and not made the grade so we're dictating now. As a person, and father (who has to worry for the rest of my live about my offspring's health and happiness, and linked to that, privacy) I'm very happy with this law. I support it, as seemingly a lot of people do. That's not authoritarian, it's the will of the people.
And no, I'm not some sort of communist beard stroker, I'm pretty central in my political beliefs and I also don't appreciate governments sticking their noses in where it's not welcome, but this, this is welcome.
Where can you buy those now? I remember they existed, but I thought that was basically a registrar bug that was fixed. The last time I searched around, I couldn't find any registrars that permitted emoji domain names.
Thanks, I'm going to try to remember this and start using it more. Hopefully it'll help me both save money and reduce the number of unread books collecting dust on my already full shelves.