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I am thinking about doing something similar. Out of curiosity, do you use a reverse proxy web server to protect from malicious attacks ? That`s probably the only part I would think of leaving in the cloud if I were to host my own servers at home.

Hype, pipe dreams, hokum... I am wondering at what point do these stories become fraud ? Telling stories about your technology that are not true to gain a financial advantage.

The tracers over prototypes advice is a precious one. Having worked for small and large companies, once you have a functional prototype that has been built quickly, managers tend to be very reluctant to let you rewrite the prototype architecture to make it clean. Using tracers you can demonstrate small but important features to the persons involved in the project and when the project will be given the go sign you can work peacefully on the product's architecture.

The initial questions to build your pitch that are enumerated in that article are also good questions to ask yourself if you should pursue or not with your company.

Some of these cases are not only dark patterns, they constitute was it legally known as fraud. If you deceive someone in order to gain a financial advantage, it is fraud. The problem is that going against those gigantic companies is very difficult.

Clear, quick and simple. It would be interesting to have such elegant introduction for other topics. Well done !

The first thing that came to my mind was... what about advertising on the web ? This is an area where machine learning and algorithmic decision-making use discrimination to either show or not an ad to a particular user. There are millions decision made everyday. Under that regulation, could you ask for the reason an ad was shown to you ?

Thanks ! That's a good way to start the day :)

Actually, it might go up quickly once they start filling up their financial results every 3 months. If they have a steady growth the market will react positively and the employees owning shares will benefit from it.

Yes. I read it. Good book indeed :)

I fully agree. When working on a team, you have to think about the future not only the current moment. If every time you have a disagreement it results in a win-lose situation I can guarantee you the mood among the your team will go down quite rapidly. I would suggest 'Getting to yes' by Bruce Patton, Roger Fisher, and William Ury on this matter of negotiation.

American approach is more 'trial and error' while French education system is more oriented toward demonstrating that something is good or not. Hence, when they see something new coming up they want to make sure that this won't interfere the current state of things. Both approaches are good, just different.

The first thing that came to my mind when reading the title was the movie Short-Circuit :)

What I get from this article is that working collaboratively is a lot more efficient than working in a spirit of competition. Specially, if you have members with different backgrounds among your team. Working collaboratively requires a trust bond between each members and usually it takes time. As we build and dismantle team sometimes at a fast pace it may be difficult to attain this state in today'S work environment.