đ§ Terry Fox, To Do, App Tracking, Tests, and Confidential Mode
Terry Fox: The Man Who Ran 143 Consecutive MarathonsâŠOn One Leg
By Darius Foroux | Darius Foroux | May 13, 2019
In 1976, an 18-year-old was involved in a car accident. He got into a rear-end collision with a truck that completely wrecked his own car. Surprisingly, the young man got out of the accident without injuries. (1,051 words)
What To Do When You Donât Know What To Do
By Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, and Paul B. Brown | HBR | March 21, 2012
Most of us prepared hard for the future we expected, and yet things arenât working out as we had planned. Thatâs true if you have been laid off, are a recent college graduate who feels underemployed, or are a manager facing constant upheavals at work, even if you are the boss, because you are wrestling with disruptive technologies and new competitors who seemingly come out of nowhere to upend your industry. (1,379 words)
Itâs the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
By Geoffrey A. Fowler | Washington Post | May 28, 2019
Apple says, âWhat happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.â Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data â in a single week. (2,157 words)
Tests that sometimes fail
By Sam Saffron | Sam Saffron | May 27, 2019
Some tests that used to always work, start âsometimesâ working. This starts slowly, âoh that test, yeah it sometimes fails, kick the build off againâ. If left unmitigated it can very quickly snowball and paralyze an entire test suite. (4,096 words)
Protect Gmail messages with confidential mode
By Staff | Google Support | May 28, 2019
When someone sends a confidential mode message, Gmail removes the message body and any attachments from the recipient's copy of the message. These are replaced with a link to the content. Gmail clients make the linked content appear as if it's part of the message. Third-party mail clients display a link in place of the content. (1,126 words) đ§