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Out of curiosity, what made you choose ES over Algolia?

The country side is not a silver bullet. It has its own set of problems with pesticides and second-order pollution such as ozone which can be higher than in urban areas. And as other have pointed out, moving to the country side does induce significant extra driving.

Indeed. Thanks for pointing this out. Scanning on device is a different story.

FWIW Microsoft already does this for photos you store on OneDrive: https://www.theregister.com/2014/08/07/ms_tip_off_child_abus...

There is a tremendous amount of research on the effectiveness of retargeting. This is dubbed "incrementality" in the field. Issues are:

1. Incrementality is extremely hard to measure due to noise and biases, in particular when trying to account for the multiple agents in the game. Attributed sales are easy to measure. For global, incremental sales, it is much harder.

2. Because of 1, this research needs large amounts of data, which only large ad tech companies have access to.

3. Because the topic is so hard to pin down and so sensitive business-wise, no private ad-tech company would publish ground-breaking material on the topic.

How about OVH with an rsync?

Kudos to you and to your manager. I feel like we all kind of "stutter" in our career... "You are smart as hell. Don't let it define you."

Saying no is actually the fairly easy part. The hard part is understanding what to say yes to.

How would governments finance this? Developing these offerings with the quality of service of the GAFAM (which users take now for granted) costs a fortune (financed by advertising in practice as of today).

So if you lose your phone, you lose all your data? (asking in a genuine manner)

mjburgess has a point. There is a relationship with online advertising for the following reason: online advertising has been a perfect testbed for the latest AI research for years because (1) it leverages massive amounts of data (2) is not mission-critical (the human cost of failure is low) (3) has little accountability regarding fairness and explainability. For these reasons, online advertising has been surfing the latest AI hype, well in front of other domains (healthcare, defense, education, etc.) where either (1), (2) or (3) is not met.

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights stipulates that EU citizens have the right to protection of their personal data. And the fact that you (the driver) have an expired warranty is private data. Period. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data...

Here is a simple, troubling scenario with this product. You're going to a professional event with your boss. Each of you is driving their own car and your boss is following you. Now your boss knows you have an expired warranty, which, whether you like it or not, will reflect badly on your professional image. You may think this scenario is far-fetched, but it will happen regularly because people who know each other sometimes drive with each other. The same kind of stuff happens with highly personalized advertising on your laptop. All these things seem inoffensive but seriously violate user privacy and will (for sure) get people in trouble in the end.

Just because you're crossing public data with data you own does not mean you are not breaking the law.

Does gmail have such a big lock-in effect on users since it allows them to use the gmail interface with their own email? (i.e. you can split the service and the UI)

Good luck getting the same quality of service as gmail with your own mail server. The fact that gmail fails every so often (extremely rarely actually) is a good sign: zero failure would mean that they are over-investing in quality and losing flexibility. Gmail only needs to be as good as the best web service out there.

Everything is obvious in the hindsight. 20% projects carry a risk, failing one or more 20% is fine. Failing many is seen as lack of judgment and does dampen your career eventually. My point was that, with reasonable judgment, an engineer can get good stuff done with a 20% project. Also, not every 20% project needs to become a fantastic new core product to be considered a success.

I am a tech lead and find it surprising that 20% projects could damper your career, perf & promo etc. Where I work, a well-executed 20% project is seen as very positive during the perf review. In fact, doing zero 20% projects for a long period of time could actually damper your career.

what could go wrong

Companies think that remote work works but they fail to realize that most of what happened over the past few months was based on prior momentum built inside the office they are carelessly ditching.