Are you from Germany or do you have your Browser set to German?
The first time I visited the site I got redirected to https://blog.lastpass.com/de/2015/06/lastpass-security-notic... (notice the "de" in the domain), which has the German words.
The second time I visited the site I didn't get redirected to the German site and didn't see the English words.
Maybe some weird automatic translation bug.
Yes and yes, so i guess that makes at least some sense :)
And yes, i've seen the same behavior - getting redirected on first visit and not on the second, so i guess you're right regarding a weird auto-translation bug...
We're thinking about it, but it's not clear to us that we can create an abstraction that fits nicely with everything else. I'm not sure that the additional complexity would be worth it. Definitely open to any suggestions.
Here are the AWS alternatives I could find when I was searching for them 2 months ago. They are both hosted in Germany and operated by German companies.
I haven't played with them yet, so I can't say if they are any good.
EC2 alternative: http://jiffybox.de Not as feature rich as EC2, but they do have an api to launch, stop, and resize instances.
What I don't get is why the F1 officials haven't learned more out of that tragic accident. Sure the cars are much safer than they were when Senna died, but why do they have to at more and more races in city centers? Sure, I can understand that they want to keep Monaco for historic reason, but there isn't a good reason to have races in the city centers of Valencia, Singapore, and soon New Jersey.
Driving that close to walls at the speeds they do, will sooner or later lead to another tragic accident.
Its tradition and a feeling of invulnerability until something really bad happens. Sometimes even after the fall things aren't done. IndyCar was working on a safer car before Las Vegas 2011, but I am not sure they have got the total message themselves or really in a financial position to change what they need changed.
NASCAR changed everything after their tragedy and hasn't had a driver death since. The next car after the COT is safe yet and all the tracks have safer barriers. I get the feeling that the restrictor plate racing is going to be the next big set of changes (funny, given that the plate was to keep the speeds down to make those tracks safe).
Street tracks has to conform to the same strict rules as the regular ones. That's why they usually have much smaller average speeds, so things like huge run-off areas are not needed. Take a look at your video again: only in one place the car reaches 300km/h. Crashes on street tracks happen quite often (less room for errors), yet I can't recall any serious one. Ok, Kubica's shunt in Montreal looked scary - but Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a semi-street and unusually fast track. The new ones are fine (safety-wise), really. Open cockpits and loose wheels are the big issues for now - both being currently worked on.
I'm trying to choose a framework right now and TodoMVC is really helping in doing so.
I have one question though:
Would you mind if I ported your apps over to CoffeeScript? I prefer CoffeeScript over JavaScript, but haven't done that much work in CoffeeScript. I think porting the apps would be a great learning experience and would help others too. Of course I would put it up on Github.
Red Bull's marketing is impeccable. They started out with all the actionsport athletes and moved upstream to more mainstream, and I guess, more expensive sports (two Formula 1 teams, more soccer teams than I can count), while still doing these crazy things. From Parcours in Santorini, to Air Races all over the world. Seems like every crazy sporting event is sponsored by Red Bull.
I think these have allowed them to be still seen as "hip" and not just selling sugar water like Coca Cola.
It is, absolutely, a genius marketing strategy. Their primary demographic just happens to be the kinds of people who watch insane sports. Brand recognition from those events is huge, and then people just happen to drop their brand-name when talking about the events to other people.
Probably cheaper in the long-run than trying to compete with someone like Coca Cola in more traditional campaigns, and way more effective.
And like Coke and Kleenex, through sheer brand awareness, they've achieved that rare feat in which a company's brand becomes synonymous with an object. In conversation throughout the world,
and like all good things, it started by accident. (i got this story from one of their marketing managers) once upon a time someone at the formula 1 won a race. and the masterchief (or however the bosses of the racing teams are called) drank a red bull instead of champagne during the victory interview.
next day red bull was sold out in austria (which was their main market at that time)
It’s more likely that a marketing manager would take personal credit for an accident (i.e. boosting their resume) than to attribute a brilliant marketing to an accident.
You are neglecting one issue: advertising and lawsuits. "Oh look, we have smuggled our product into the tightest-controlled advertising event, and we did it on purpose; sure, we'll happily pay you the $$$ for this priceless publicity boost." vs "Oh, it was an accident, there's no way we'll pay you anything."
I'm completely certain that the F1 organizers would sue the heck out of Red Bull for their unauthorized ad, if they only could prove RB did it on purpose (and RB isn't so foolish to provide them with ammunition).
What exactly do you think F1 would sue Red Bull for?
Without RB having a contract of some type with F1, it is unlikely there is any way for them to sue RB. It may be possible for F1 to sue the driver, but at this point that would seem ridiculous since RB is now a huge F1 sponsor.
Accidents also don't eliminate lawsuits. Even if there was a way for F1 to sue RB, they should still be able to sue them for accidents. For example, if RB had a contract with F1 which stipulated when and how RB could be shown, and RB showed their product at a different time by accident F1 could still sue them.
> next day red bull was sold out in austria (which was there main markets at that time)
This is also where the Western version of Red Bull is from. Originally it was an energy drink in Thailand and an Austrian partnered up with the Thai owner, adapted it to suit the Western palate and ever since then they have been going incredibly strong and long survived all energy-drink competitors that shortly popped up during the 90s.
Mateschitz's and Yoovidhya's net worth is about 5 billion each.
I don't think there is any important extreme sport event they are not involved in. Their annual "Flugtag" is legendary here in Austria! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Flugtag
Yep, they've nailed the brand image without a doubt. Everything they do is to go "This isn't your dads soft drink", and it seems to have worked pretty well.
Also very cool, they own their own aerobatics team called The Flying Bulls, and they have a B25 bomber. Why? Because they can, and that's awesome.
