Gossip Protocol Gossip Protocol

In the second episode of Fire & Forget (woo! we've got a name!), we talk about browsers, data protection, and how to stop your poor poor parents from downloading every toolbar available.

Join us for the first episode of the more chilled out side of Gossip Protocol. In this episode, we talk about data breaches, hacking, and quickly devolve into creepy massage requests.

Stories mentioned:
Microsoft to Chromium: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/04/chromium_edge_microsoft/
Browser usage: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide
Marriott Attack: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46401890
Marriott Statement: https://answers.kroll.com/
Urban Massage Leak: https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/27/urban-massage-data-exposed-customers-creepy-clients/
AWS Firecracker: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/
Quora leak: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/quora-says-hackers-stole-password-data-and-other-details-for-100-million-users/
AWS Lambda runtime API: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/

Part 2 of our discussion on interviewing.

Part 1 of our discussion on interviewing.

A chat around the factors that can influence a healthy work/life balance.

00:00 Forward
00:35 Intro
01:47 Define work/life balance
02:30 What makes work/life balance possible
04:33 Getting closure on the work day
08:04 What is a "life" anyway?
10:11 Employer's role in work/life balance
15:23 Personal responsibility
20:47 Unexpected time off (e.g. illness)
22:56 Work/life balance "gimmicks"
26:51 Working from home
31:29 Will someone think of the kids?!
37:10 End
37:25 Outro