Why do they need me to register just to see a PDF? It's going to be cached on Google soon enough anyway. Needless hassle.
But what if users don't see a difference between a paid link that appears on the first page (via AdWords) and an organic one? AdWords is then effectively the same: pay for placement on page one. But of course, the…
IPO means that $1BB was the plateau. They waited for this. Time to cash out. All down hill from here. How fast? Don't know. FB CFO probably does. FB business model is display ads plus fad factor. Recent survey said 1/2…
I agree with you entertainment is a cash cow. But FB is _free_ entertainment. As is your photo-album and the discussions you have with your friends. You appear to be referring to future success. It's like Microsoft…
What is the product? Is it the hardware? Or the software? Are you saying they are one product, not two? We've been through this countless times. Microsoft and the OEM's. Apple and their locked down hardware. Consumers…
It's sort of like Facebook having a "Like" button but no button to signal caution. It's a distortion of reality. If everything we ate smelled and tasted "good", we'd die. Because we would eat poisonous things. There is…
Simons' supervisor commented that he was a model employee for AOL's Palo Alto Office. "Eric was always on time, never late for work."
Maybe he should have brought the security guard on as a co-founder?
"you go to the fridge to get food" Hungry. Get food. How much thinking is involved in that? Do you know what has a very high clickthrough rate on FB, probably their highest CTR ever (but which is no longer allowed)?…
OK, so if your wife says to you, e.g., "Swannie, we need [description of rarely purchased, high priced product]. The old one has stopped working." Do you check the front of the fridge, your kitchem notice board, the…
"everyone is a rational actor" And that's why the message to Harvard graduates[1] (purportedly America's brightest rational minds) makes deliberate reference to a man[2] who has consistently proven this to be false. The…
I don't think the issue is his personal financial planning.
I too write mostly throwaway stuff. Obviously, terse languages are better suited for that than others. Java makes me cringe. But my understanding is Java programmers use IDE's with autocomplete. They don't do much…
I was tempted to say something similar. But this is a thread about Linus. As for your use of find, I rarely ever use find for anything more than printing a recursive dir listing. I always gravitate toward different…
I find it best to just stick to reading people's code and their documentation (if any) as opposed to reading what comments they make about computers, software, or any other subject. This is because the more I learn…
Version? Not sure what you mean. Some other way to interact with the kernel, besides a "shell"? Quicker, shorter, terser sounds good to me, whatever it is. Or maybe you mean if he wrote his own shell?
Well, something like "privileges" seems like a design that is a holdover from a time of shared computing. We've adpated it for other uses, and for some people it's become some sort of security religion. If we assume it…
And I will take that, if coupled with demonstrated competence and a solid, sensible vision, over being "nice", "accomodating" and "willing to answer questions", every time. This attitude is not true of all OS…
But why do you think that? Is it because it will deter future litigation? If yes, does that imply that there is a business advantage to avoiding litigation? What would Alsup say about this case? As a programmer who is…
Selling off significant amounts of stock, for tax purposes, in the company you work for is not something one typically does _before the company has even gone public_. Insiders were dumping their stock in the days…
Right on, Elise. What users demand is what programmers will deliver. This is why it is so important for users to become educated about computers and networking. You cannot ask for what you do not know exists. There are…
I like the TR article and I like this comment. Both are the voice of reason. I also think it will fall of deaf ears. Too many programmers think they are smarter than everyone else, e.g. those in advertising. They…
Gratuitous use of javascript.
How many bitcoins is that?
Watch how quickly some on HN will try to play this down. We'll likely see some Facebook execs jumping ship soon enough. But I'm sure the FB defenders, the people think web advertising is the salvation of humanity, will…
Why do they need me to register just to see a PDF? It's going to be cached on Google soon enough anyway. Needless hassle.
But what if users don't see a difference between a paid link that appears on the first page (via AdWords) and an organic one? AdWords is then effectively the same: pay for placement on page one. But of course, the…
IPO means that $1BB was the plateau. They waited for this. Time to cash out. All down hill from here. How fast? Don't know. FB CFO probably does. FB business model is display ads plus fad factor. Recent survey said 1/2…
I agree with you entertainment is a cash cow. But FB is _free_ entertainment. As is your photo-album and the discussions you have with your friends. You appear to be referring to future success. It's like Microsoft…
What is the product? Is it the hardware? Or the software? Are you saying they are one product, not two? We've been through this countless times. Microsoft and the OEM's. Apple and their locked down hardware. Consumers…
It's sort of like Facebook having a "Like" button but no button to signal caution. It's a distortion of reality. If everything we ate smelled and tasted "good", we'd die. Because we would eat poisonous things. There is…
Simons' supervisor commented that he was a model employee for AOL's Palo Alto Office. "Eric was always on time, never late for work."
Maybe he should have brought the security guard on as a co-founder?
"you go to the fridge to get food" Hungry. Get food. How much thinking is involved in that? Do you know what has a very high clickthrough rate on FB, probably their highest CTR ever (but which is no longer allowed)?…
OK, so if your wife says to you, e.g., "Swannie, we need [description of rarely purchased, high priced product]. The old one has stopped working." Do you check the front of the fridge, your kitchem notice board, the…
"everyone is a rational actor" And that's why the message to Harvard graduates[1] (purportedly America's brightest rational minds) makes deliberate reference to a man[2] who has consistently proven this to be false. The…
I don't think the issue is his personal financial planning.
I too write mostly throwaway stuff. Obviously, terse languages are better suited for that than others. Java makes me cringe. But my understanding is Java programmers use IDE's with autocomplete. They don't do much…
I was tempted to say something similar. But this is a thread about Linus. As for your use of find, I rarely ever use find for anything more than printing a recursive dir listing. I always gravitate toward different…
I find it best to just stick to reading people's code and their documentation (if any) as opposed to reading what comments they make about computers, software, or any other subject. This is because the more I learn…
Version? Not sure what you mean. Some other way to interact with the kernel, besides a "shell"? Quicker, shorter, terser sounds good to me, whatever it is. Or maybe you mean if he wrote his own shell?
Well, something like "privileges" seems like a design that is a holdover from a time of shared computing. We've adpated it for other uses, and for some people it's become some sort of security religion. If we assume it…
And I will take that, if coupled with demonstrated competence and a solid, sensible vision, over being "nice", "accomodating" and "willing to answer questions", every time. This attitude is not true of all OS…
But why do you think that? Is it because it will deter future litigation? If yes, does that imply that there is a business advantage to avoiding litigation? What would Alsup say about this case? As a programmer who is…
Selling off significant amounts of stock, for tax purposes, in the company you work for is not something one typically does _before the company has even gone public_. Insiders were dumping their stock in the days…
Right on, Elise. What users demand is what programmers will deliver. This is why it is so important for users to become educated about computers and networking. You cannot ask for what you do not know exists. There are…
I like the TR article and I like this comment. Both are the voice of reason. I also think it will fall of deaf ears. Too many programmers think they are smarter than everyone else, e.g. those in advertising. They…
Gratuitous use of javascript.
How many bitcoins is that?
Watch how quickly some on HN will try to play this down. We'll likely see some Facebook execs jumping ship soon enough. But I'm sure the FB defenders, the people think web advertising is the salvation of humanity, will…