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_Chief··on GDPR compliance as a service
Not really sure as well but from https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/personal-... personal data seems to include "online identifiers", further defines online identifiers as "Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifier"
_Chief··on GDPR compliance as a service
you could use cloudflare IP geolocation to block EU countries based on the Cf-Ipcountry header they provide. Though just by checking their IP I think you may need to comply with gdpr
_Chief··on Ask HN: Are there any online trainings worth paying for?
I find online courses not really as all in one but all-the-best in one. Meaning, all the conventional bits you need to know to be productive and, importantly, the gotchas that are often undocumented. This also means that it's not all in one and you still have to look at the docs. I usu go through an online course before a docs deep dive, and find this approach less time consuming than figuring out the docs coming in blind. I've got nearly all of Wes Bos' courses, and several Udemy courses notably Maxmilian's and Grider's. Also, 'Bash Shell Scripting' on Udemy that I usu. recommend to colleagues new to Linux.
_Chief··on IBM Plex – A new typeface
On mobile the the UI is just as bizzare; random horizontal lines, the page jumps for no reason, touch/scroll randomly stops working. It's takes talent to make website UX so uncomfortable
_Chief··on Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app as of 3/29/18
Go for what works for you, a popular stack may not necessarily be best for you unless you, at least, have experience with the technologies. My current default stack. Frontend: Vuejs (pwa) Backend: Go (exposes json api endpoints for frontend) DB: mariadb / sqlite
_Chief··on Ask HN: How do you track your personal goals?
Todoist, ui/ux is intuitive, allows you breakdown tasks into subtasks, set reminders, group project tasks, can sync to google calendar. Though what I like most about it is the 7-day tasks view's simplicity. (I'm on premium, the free version losses a bunch of features eg reminders)

I was using Trello for a while but found the UI to be a bit of a pain as both mobile and desktop require a lot of horizontal scrolling and it was hard to take a high-level view of upcoming tasks. Maybe I was just using it wrong.

_Chief··on Learning Rust
From the github readme

> I am a Sri Lankan Web Developer who lives in Vietnam. So I am not a native English speaker and just learning Rust

This guide is so well done, props to you. I haven't worked with Rust yet but your docs make it seem so easy to work with.

_Chief··on Do not use NPM 5.7
I wish fixing of npm global directory permissions was part of the npm install page (https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node), or mentioned at least. My first few npm setups always left me in permissions hell as I'd just use the install page, ignoring the next steps.
_Chief··on Ask HN: What has HN given you?
Impostor syndrome. jk

Without HN, it's impossible to quantity how much tech/dev news I'd have missed out on. Plus, the comments are often even more insightful than the actual posts.

_Chief··on Don't use VPN services
As someone from an African country with govt affiliated ISPs, even if my vpn service logged almost everything, I'd still use it as compared to the alternative
_Chief··on Show HN: Web scraping page analyzer
how about caching the default entry (static url instead) + attribs, to ease demoing. at the moment it's been analyzing for more than >5mins
_Chief··on Using Go Templates
Especially useful if, for example, you'll be doing additional js templating that also use the mustache tag eg with Vuejs (can also be changed)
_Chief··on DBCLI – Modern Suite of Database CLIs
How about syntax highlighting?

Keep up the great work on usql

_Chief··on Are we in a cryptocurrency bubble? A comparison with the 2000 dotcom bubble
Sorry, trying to read this was so painful and time wasting on mobile.

For anyone else not interested in scrolling:

Conclusion: It’s obviously a simplified model and you can play around with the numbers and get marginally different results, but the key insight is that even if you’re a fervent crypto believer, if you think there is a nonzero chance a crash might happen then in order to maximize your EV (i.e. make the most money) you should keep some % of your money on the sidelines to invest once the bubble pops and lower your average buy-in cost. The higher the probability you assign to a crash, the more money you should keep on the sidelines and vice versa

_Chief··on Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
Cggy I'D W
_Chief··on ES7 brings two new features
JavaScript,where even the "newest version" is already outdated
_Chief··on Linode Introduces $5 VPS with 1GB RAM
Scaleway offering €2.99 2GB ram VPS, you can also check them out. Though their servers are hosted in Paris & Amsterdam.

It was also a pleasant surprise seeing a Brad Fitzpatrick testimonial on their homepage https://www.scaleway.com/

_Chief··on Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
>Now all my users are going to hear that my site is insecure, when nothing at all changed.

Nothing's changed: Your site really is insecure, it's just that now users know.

_Chief··on Telegraph
Please use https.
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