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To get quickly up to speed on McKinsey, I would recommend to watch an episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight on the subject: https://youtu.be/AiOUojVd6xQ

http://archive.today/Hb0zm

Does it? My understanding reading the documentation [0] and according to the press[1] is that it leverages Google and Apple's decentralized frameworks.

[0] https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation/blob/mast...

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/10f87eb3-87f9-46ea-88ab-8706adefe...

True - however in case of air travel passenger demand it is already forecasted to increase considerably, thus greater efficiency should just make it more sustainable.

Google Screen Cleaner

https://blog.google/technology/next-billion-users/cant-mess-...

Google Tulip: Grown in the Netherlands, Google Tulip communicates with plants

https://blog.google/products/home/google-tulip/

21st Century Application Architectures by Werner Vogels, 2013 https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4023-21st-century-appli...

I can’t even say how many times I recommended someone to watch it - even today, 5 years after.

I am on the same exact medication. I live in Italy. My 90-day supply is 15 euro (5 euro per box), but the government covers most of it through the healthcare system, so I end up paying 3 euro (1 euro per box).

I love ThinkGeek’s April Fools - they always come up with super creative ideas. And that’s why I love April Fools in general - one day when everyone can be silly and take a breath from the usual routine.

Regarding the downvotes... oh well, I guess you’re right. :(

This was last year’s ;)

Burger King’s Chocolate Whopper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXf2ct7C2fQ

Brewolingo, by Duolingo: drink a beer, learn a language

http://brewolingo.duolingo.com/

Honda Sixth Sense

https://youtu.be/blaL64WbI2s

T-Mobile Sidekicks

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/sidekicks

Tetris coming to Julia language for v1.0

https://julialang.org/blog/2018/04/tetris-and-you

ROCK 'EM SHOCK 'EM ROBOTS: TESLA VS. EDISON: https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/krvu/

FORTNITE R/C BATTLE BUS: https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/krvv/

Google Maps Where’s Waldo?

https://www.blog.google/products/maps/wheres-waldo-find-him-...

Google Files Go Bad Joke detector

https://www.blog.google/topics/next-billion-users/no-laughin...

It is. Mostly started when Amazon landed in 2010.

Not sure about Australia, but the most common reason would be local regulations (i.e. laws forbidding to store certain data outside of the borders of a particular region). But given we're talking about Australia, I would not rule out the latency at all.

Do you happen to know if they outsourced or if they opened a subsidiary there and just moved the positions?

I feel close to their IT staff having to deal with this on a Saturday afternoon.

Partially OT: anyone wanting to share any on-call horror stories? :)

Here's an excerpt taken from the EU Internet Handbook [0]:

Cookies clearly exempt from consent according to the EU advisory body on data protection- WP29 [1] include:

- user‑input cookies (session-id) such as first‑party cookies to keep track of the user's input when filling online forms, shopping carts, etc., for the duration of a session or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in some cases

- authentication cookies, to identify the user once he has logged in, for the duration of a session

- user‑centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses, for a limited persistent duration

- multimedia content player cookies, used to store technical data to play back video or audio content, for the duration of a session

- load‑balancing cookies, for the duration of session

- user‑interface customisation cookies such as language or font preferences, for the duration of a session (or slightly longer)

- third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing cookies, for logged‑in members of a social network.

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/docum...

As a European who had to make sure the provisions contained in this law were implemented on a few high-traffic sites targeting consumers, I can definitively say that the law is at least a little bit "controversial" and unclear. We had to request the assistance of a law firm to make sure we complied.

Originally it looked like you had to give the users an option to decide if they allow the use of tracking cookies or not, potentially having to deal with NOT pushing such cookies in case the user did not consent. In reality, most of the implementations I've seen are just informing the customers that tracking cookies are used and let them know that usage of the site represents consent of such usage, adding that they can modify the browser preferences if they want to modify their cookie preferences. Additionally, you have to link to a cookie policy that you publish on the site.

As a clarification, this law does not apply to cookies in general: certain cookies, sometime referred as technical cookies (e.g. session) are exempted as long as they're not used for tracking purposes.

In the post they mention the probable cause is a developer account which got compromised. One of the most important rules of most security frameworks (including PCI DSS) is segregating access between development and production: developers are not supposed to be able to access production data. I suppose this rule was not followed here - or an alternative mitigating control (which can be applied instead of the rule above) was not good enough to prevent this.

Does anyone remember WinFS (1)?

Bill Gates described it as his biggest product regret (2).

I remember I thought it was brilliant. Too bad it was probably a little bit too futuristic for its time, as for a few other things they launched when it just was not the right time... the clunky Tablet PCs (3) were for sure another example.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

(2) http://www.zdnet.com/article/bill-gates-biggest-microsoft-pr...

(3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC

The fine is actually 10k a day, so 300k/month, not 3 million.

A taxi hailing system valued 70 billion.

We'll see. They can try to get an appeal court order blocking the original one, or they can just continue to operate and pay the 10k/day fine, which is nothing for them. The problem is that if they do so then I am sure they'll not make their life easy...

Are GUIDs so bad? I've been using and recommending them for a long time, but lately I've been getting a lot of push back.