GDPR: Don't Panic

Re:GDPR: Don't Panic by tezza on Friday May 18, 2018 @05:22AM (#17099921)

> this particular one has the interesting side effect of causing mass hysteria in the otherwise rational tech sector.

* Y2K

* Dot Com hysteria

* Dot Com crash hysteria

* AWS outages

* Will robots replace us ?

* Will Microsoft crush me ?

* Will Google crush me ?

* I just raised £30M series A, where my Aeron at

* Nosql means I can throw away everything I knew about databases

* Web first

* Mobile first

* XML everywhere

* OO everywhere

* Javascript everywhere

* AI everywhere

Where is the evidence for rational behaviour ?

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Re:GDPR: Don't Panic by horseLOGIC on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:05AM (#17100157)

I chuckled at that sentence as well. It's not that the tech sector is rational, it's that a lot of the people working in it are desperate to maintain a self-image of being a rational, scientific-minded person. Then, if some evidence collides with that self-image, we just blame it on management. Problem solved!

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Re:GDPR: Don't Panic by pjc50 on Friday May 18, 2018 @05:44AM (#17100039)

Y2K is one rare example where all the panic actually got the problem fixed. The dotcom crash was definitely real with huge job losses too.

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