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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by jordigh on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:06PM (#19050361)
One of the most famous "legal hacks", Richard Stallman's copyleft, had to be rewritten by a lawyer. rms wrote GPLv1 by himself and you should never use it. GPLv2 is the version that was actually vetted by a lawyer.

A similar thing happened with Perl's Artistic License. Its version 2 is basically also a lawyer-approved rewrite.

In other words, hackers, don't try this at home. There are professionals who can do this for you.

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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by nickpeterson on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:16PM (#19050448)
I find it somewhat sad that law is basically a guild where arcane language is used to gatekeep what should be a much more straightforward exercise.
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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by Karrot_Kream on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:19PM (#19050480)
It's not. It's the equivalent of saying "I can do this better" and producing unreliably, buggy code. Sure you can, but a more experienced professional can point out all the corner cases you missed.
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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by sbov on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:05PM (#19050732)
Then when it fails, you blame the programming language rather than your experience in programming.
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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by jancsika on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:49PM (#19050667)
I find it somewhat sad that programming is basically a guild where arcane language is used to gatekeep what should be a much more straightforward exercise.
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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by rhacker on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:57PM (#19051450)
Hahaha, actually at some point in the future, I suspect 25 years or so, our programming guild will likely have taken over and replace the legal guild.
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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by majewsky on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:03AM (#19052947)
This would make an interesting entry on http://longbets.org/
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Re:CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR by heavenlyblue on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:33PM (#19050576)
I mean, if you pay attention to the names of the kernel API functions, you'd probably end up with the same conclusion.
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