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I don't know why but I find it really relaxing to watch those kinds of cooking video with a slower pace.

It's good to slow down and enjoy those fairly simple things.

>When someone says lets eat out at this expensive 150$ plate restaurant, I think gee I can buy X shares of Y stock instead.

Nothing wrong with being investment savvy and all that jazz but obsessing over it doesn't sound healthy.

People can enjoy a fancy plate or 2.

Or it could be used as yet another metric of which people are willing to spend a bit of time to help their fellow colleagues.

It can have a huge impact and isn't something that will necessarily come up on performance review.

Advertisers do care a lot about where their ads are displayed.

There's a whole section of adtech dedicated to brand safety.

I believe it's over the top[1] but it's something marketing folks do care about.

Also the good old pop up ads were created for that reason, aeons ago.

[[1] https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/advertisers-embrace-n...

Just dropping this in, Amazon is about to purchase Sizmek which is a major player in online advertising - the main competitor to G's Doubleclick advertiser solutions.

So they'll get even more data on the marketing side.

Excel is an excellent tool, the most democratic data tool out there (and for the foreseeable short term future).

Whether you are a finance person working on balancing the sheets (or whatever else they do, that's beyond my knowledge) or an operation person building complex macros, it is both versatile, easy to use and yet powerful.

The byproducts of this is that it is also subverted by the genius of human ingenuity and you end up with some pretty interesting, awe-inspiring contraptions.

Such as building a calendar system but using arrow graphs to fill it out. And that's fine, except when you try to scale things up to automate the process and save people money. Now you have to do some pretty wasteful engineering to accommodate this pesky creativity we have.

That is the really interesting and a testament to being a really good software (in features and reach). It breaks the boundaries of the limited vocabulary of computers and therefore can only be fully leveraged by humans.

It's both a great reminder that most people in the world are not on the same level as the crowd around here [1] and that as the group who create tools used by such an audience, we have to be mindful of that.

On a positive note, I think there are some interesting work being done to rethink how to approach those tasks, I remember using one product in particular that had the right mix of being visually engaging while enforcing boundaries. But this won't solve the issue of users having to hack their way into getting what they want how they want it.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

Really interesting story, especially if you put it in the context of being corporate world and a finance team, both of which aren't the type to rock the boat.

It says a lot about the struggles of enabling change in structures with strong silos that (what are probably among the most risk averse type of) people would go to such lengths.

Like what Lumen ( https://www.lumendatabase.org/ ) does for DMCA takedowns? Yeah that'd be cool to see what's happening and keep track of those requests.

I've been in the opposite situation once and it turns out upper management wasn't really fine with a self directed team without a designated manager / leader.

Granted they wanted to introduce changes and needed someone to enforce that. We ended up sort of pushing in unison for the person who we thought would be the best and he did a fine job managing that team.

Teens and early adulthood are the formative years and where most people are susceptible to peer pressure and gain an ability to make their own decision.

Therefore it's very likely that the combination of these factors are particularly powerful at enabling bad decisions in that age range.

Nothing quite like a bit of snake dodging to start your day.

Yeah you'd be better off having a proper clean install of Python + virtualenvwrapper as your starting point.

How can you be a grown adult having to work at a minimum wage job, see this and not die inside?

Public post mortem? Brilliant.

Hope you can share what you learnt from this incident and hopefully you'll take a hard look at your processes.

I'd hate to be caught in the same issue, especially that we are already customers, and I'm not sure I'll have as much clout as Nicolas here to get your attention.

It doesn't scale.

I know everyone love to hate on the industry but I think with such firepower, I'd go for a "takeover" of the 3rd parties (read middle men) in Online Advertising. You probably have decent capabilities to detect fraud while building a privacy minded tracking system where the user can manage its personas.

While the ITP (Safari's -and maybe Chrome soon-- attempt to regulate tracking) initiative is on paper a good idea, I'm not convinced it's going to deliver.

Barging in with an OpenRTB v4 (current version is V3) that delivers on that - and maybe cut the middle men, that could be neat for every one : publishers, consummers and advertisers.

I really like the way you frame it: both choices are bound to be a mistake, so pick the one you can live with.

I'm talking about the overall work culture in France, rather than the specific differences between being a public servant or an employee.

The issue that I've seen with Excel is that it's often seen as the hammer -everything is a nail- for people that are less inclined with technology / set in their way.

They will use it both as intended, a spreadsheet for calculations, usually for reports.

But also as publishing software (think InDesign) and format their spreadsheet to look like an invoice / quote, a hand made Gantt chart (yeah with arrows as delimiters, as opposed to filling the cells), etc ...

It's both a fascinating and horrific thing to behold, something that wouldn't be out of place in a H.P Lovecraft story.

We're going to try to get the Gantt folks to modernise a bit and use a dedicated tool for planning but we already know it's going to be complicated to get the senior folks to even consider it.

Completely agree with your points, except the extensible bit. I believe having a DSL with strict boundaries will make it easy for new users to grok than having to go through N pages of modules(/ libs / extensions) documentation and feeling overwhelmed.

Smaller DSLs that could be mix n matched depending on the problem at task might be a better fit.

Wait, I feel like I'm describing a std lib here...

Yeah let's not even mention the super low count of campaigns and conversions an advertiser can have at any given time.

Some of the advertisers we work with have pretty small budget, i.e. less than 50k/month and even them will probably max out the 64 campaigns.

I'm all for having a privacy minded advertising industry but this proposal misses the mark big time.

I haven't worked at Orange / FT but I think I wouldn't be wrong emphasising how strongly top-down corporate structures in France can be, as opposed to the US.

Put simply, your boss is "expected" to know more than you, you're not really supposed to question that. Easy to see how that can degenerate when going through such a change.

Probably no but they surely built goodwill with that company and as a result can help them build a good reputation. This is often overlooked but people will remember that.

Or they could just be satisfied with doing the right thing, rather than trying to extract as much money as they could.

Thank you, it was such a great video. Worth the 3 hours.

It's more than purely testing[0], it's a lack of self-awareness. I remember seeing marketing / engagement material targeting worldwide customers and using American football as the illustration. Wrong kind of football if you're aiming beyond NA.

[0] Not to detract from the skin colour issues we've seen countless examples of, like the example you mentioned or the Google Photo fail https://news.sky.com/story/google-photo-app-labels-black-cou...

I am very pleased with the quantity of cats any given search returns.

You may proceed.

Exactly, thank you for fixing my mistake.

Uncle G has already too much grasp on the web as it is.

OpenFaas? https://www.openfaas.com/

I for one would like to thank Larry for messing this up.

While current situation is far from perfect (looking at you Mark Z), I don't think having the Borg being the top dog on both Search and Social would have been a great thing at all.

I can be quite the oddball, colourful to put it mildly - in both "good" and "less then stellar" ways.

But I never really knew how people I work with perceive me, beyond the coworkers I was really close with. I figured they mostly saw me as some sort of weirdo that they tolerate at best.

Then one day, I left a job and went back to the same company a few weeks later. On day 1 of my come back, within the first 5 minutes of doing a mock welcome - I already knew everyone in this new team, another lad came behind me and lifted me up, in a celebratory fashion.

It was really unexpected but it's one of my fondest memory. This took place in small satellite office with an overall great vibe, so YMMV.

But all in all, I don't think there's anything wrong with being recognized for the morale boost you might provide to your surroundings.