lordlarm
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Comment · 1 year ago
Well, I don't think the article argues for employees sitting on needles during their working hours, but rather a push back on the very real and opposite trend where excessively fancy and comfortable offices makes employees detached from the actual finances of the business.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is awesome!
As many others are sharing feedback, I thought I’d might add some myself: I would like to have better support for changing roles internally within the same company (ie promotions etc) and in this regard having the month available at least as an option would be great. LinkedIn uses the company as a higher level grouping, then the years/months spent in a certain position.
For me to use this regularly I would have some reason to check in; and I guess either building up “company profiles” where I could see people who work in a certain company or indeed an interesting way to find companies and open positions would be great.
I love the “features” section and the focus on adding people you’ve worked closely with.
As you are - it seems - involved in Quip too, I’m cheeky enough to add some feedback in that product: fix notifications (!) - managing and keeping track of them is close to impossible, make it easier to actually discuss higher level on a particular document (not per line, and the comments in the sidebar disappears quickly) and lastly please add support for collapsing certain sections of a document :-)
Comment · 8 years ago
Without any precedent on concrete examples of what is legitimate and what is not, this clause in the GDPR is its biggest weakness.
If a company sells something online they only really need your address & name for delivery + credit card details. Then you could argue it is legitimate to use an email to create an account, fair enough. But without precedent it's so easy to just say 'in order to increase revenue (legitimate intrest) we're going to use all emails to send a newsletter, boosting sales'. And then you could use the 'Right to object' in the GDPR as a fallback for your actions.
I know of multiple companies where they prior to GDPR asked for explicit concent during signup for being allowed to send newsletters, but who post-GDPR dropped the concent and use 'Legitimate intrests' to justify it. Basically leaving the individual worse off.
Comment · 8 years ago
The 'loophole' here would be the definition of 'legitimate intrests', where businesses can defend not giving users a choice in many of these matters due to the activity being critical for the service to work or the business to survive.
I.e. Facebook _could_ argue that users would have to have their data collected and analysed, as this would enable them to sell ads which in turn is their core interest.
Another example could be automatic enrollment into newsletters or data collection/analyzation with the option to opt-out by going to settings. You don't _have_ to give users the explicit consent checkbox during signup if you can defend the activity by it being in your legitimate interests.
This article goes into more detail: https://medium.com/mydata/five-loopholes-in-the-gdpr-367443c...
Comment · 9 years ago
Kolonial.no | Software Engineer; Dev Ops; Data Scientist; iOS developer | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE http://jobb.kolonial.no/
Kolonial.no are one of the fastest growing startups in Norway recently valued at ~$180 million after just 3 years of operations. We're enabling users to buy their groceries online and have already thousands of daily customers.
We're unique in that we've built a complete warehouse, logistics, and procurement platform with millions of daily transactions and lots of interesting challenges as automation becomes a more important. This has allowed us to scale and adapt quickly to market and business demands.
Our technology stack is primarily Python, Django, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, Salt, Elastic Search, Celery, SCSS and Javascript + React.js where suitable. You can read more about our stack here: https://kolonial.no/om/teknologi/.
Non-exhaustive list of benefits: a competitive salary; autonomy; warm lunch made by our office chef; new offices in central Oslo; and whatever equipment you would like to develop on. Norwegian is not a requirement, but it is preferred if at least you'd like to learn.
Comment · 9 years ago
Can't get it to work on Firefox due to it trying to load jQuery from code.jquery.com where the CORS-policy disallows it. Specifically:
> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js. (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing).
Comment · 9 years ago
Norway recently decided [0] it would manually count the votes in the upcoming election (11th of Sep) after it was revealed that the machines responsible for automatic counting were connected to the Internet and full of potential security exploits [1].
Some details on the software (ReadSoft FORMS) and the process (EVA Scanning): https://valg.no/om-valg/om-valg2/maskinell-opptelling-av-val...
Sources (Norwegian only):
[0]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/krever-manuell-stemmetelling-i-alle...
[1]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/teller-opp-stemmer-i-valget-pa-data...
Comment · 9 years ago
Kolonial.no | Software Engineer; Dev Ops; Data Scientist; iOS developer | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE http://jobb.kolonial.no/
Kolonial.no are one of the fastest growing startups in Norway recently valued at ~$180 million after just 3 years of operations. We're enabling users to buy their groceries online and have already thousands of daily customers.
We're unique in that we've built a complete warehouse, logistics, and procurement platform with millions of daily transactions and lots of interesting challenges as automation becomes a more important. This has allowed us to scale and adapt quickly to market and business demands.
Our technology stack is primarily Python, Django, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, Salt, Elastic Search, Celery, SCSS and Javascript + React.js where suitable. You can read more about our stack here: https://kolonial.no/om/teknologi/.
Non-exhaustive list of benefits: a competitive salary; autonomy; warm lunch made by our office chef; new offices in central Oslo; and whatever equipment you would like to develop on. Norwegian is not a requirement, but it is preferred if at least you'd like to learn.