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That was my interpretation too. Not a good move by Salesforce.

Great stories! The research institute gets a mention in the book too.

Based on what you said you have enjoyed already, I'd highly recommend "A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid and the Kodak Patent War" by Ronald K. Fierstein (http://www.triumphofgenius.com/).

It is a history of Land and Polaroid, together with a detailed, insider's view of the long-running litigation between Polaroid and Kodak (the author worked at the firm which represented Polaroid on the case).

One of the things I found most interesting was just how much Steve Jobs was inspired by and copied Edwin Land.

Non-paywall link: https://archive.md/RPjsX

Microsoft's board made the right call when they promoted Satya to CEO. Their share price on the day he became CEO was $36.35 and is now $369.84 (and likely to increase again on this news).

Putting together a deal like this whilst maintaining the relationship with OpenAI is impressive enough, but to do it as a cricket tragic when India was losing to Australia is even better.

Perhaps, but his reception at that talk I linked suggests there is more to his involvement than that to me. (I am not American though, so might be reading too much into it)

What stood out for me was the assessments of Peter Thiel's involvement in politics by Steve Bannon and the author of this piece. They both seem way off in those assessments to me, given both the success of Palantir and Anduril and his ongoing ties to the conservative establishment - e.g. his recent appearance at The Nixon Seminar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVOHakxXbMw)

I thought the message itself was okay and posted the article as it shows at least some action since the previous Hacker News discussion. I didn't want to edit the article's title though, beyond cutting the words "for Windows 10" to make it fit.

Why www as well? Is it just to make the target domain clearer, or for some other reason?

I am anti-tracking in general, although it feels like that is a losing (or already lost) battle.

Many on here make their living directly or indirectly through being able to track traffic, so I was curious to hear if there were any arguments (ethical or otherwise) against my approach.

I am pretty sure you are referring to Russ Ackoff's lecture about his time at Bell Labs: https://vimeo.com/148192220

(If you haven't already read it and are interested in Bell Labs, 'The Idea Factory' by Jon Gertner is worth checking out.)

CNET's two-part series on Courier:

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-...

https://www.cnet.com/news/how-windows-8-kod-the-innovative-c...

> For example, WhatsApp founders requested a completely different office layout when their team moved on campus. Much larger desks and personal space, a policy of not speaking out loud in the space, and conference rooms made unavailable to fellow Facebookers nearby. This irritated people at Facebook, but Mark personally supported and defended it.

Unless I am misinterpreting this, Brian and Jan negotiated for and received a separate working environment for the Whatsapp team where they could avoid some of the pitfalls of Facebook's open plan office and actually get work done without interruption. That David seems to be suggesting this as a criticism says a lot.

On a completely unrelated topic...I am reminded of a quote by the writer, Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”