An upvote alone doesn't do that story justice. Absolutely fantastic piece.
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Facebook didn't make him a billionaire. He & co. made a 19 billion dollar business. Anything after that, facebook can take credit for. But everything right up to the contract signing/announcement can't be attributed to them.
also known as common law. and most ex-UK colonies have it(USA/Canada/India/Australia/New Zealand/UK & more)
What have the "big" SV companies in common?
Exploiting customer data more than ever before with weak US lawmakers unwilling to challenge them or press for stronger user protections. Including adapting or enforcing rules more suitable for the internet age.
FB/Instagram/LinkedIn and other social media companies rely on inducing addictive behaviour in their users so as to sell more ads. That's it. All bullshit about connections and making the world a better place.. It's hollow. Gamification of users so as to sell more ads.
I feel that's how it should be.
OS > Browser > Browser Extension > Website
Using some sites(JIRA in particular) in Firefox is painful as they just capture every keypress/combo regardless of whether they need it or not. Yes, it's lazy on the website devs part but that is why I think they should be last in line.
They need an oversight committee (from outside the valley preferably)
Anybody got the breakdown on community commits to FF vs. employee commits?
working long != working hard
It seems as long as they can regurgitate grad level algorithms, most other things are non issues.
The brightest are people who look at quality of __life__ (that thing you only get one of) & decide that a life where you can actually __live__ (nice* home in nice* area/< 40 min commute/~40hr work week) and then choose to live that life.
There absolutely are very bright people there who make 7 figures a year and can do all those nice things. But that's a tiny minority.
barring the weather argument, i don't get why people choose SV. Great, you can work with "scale" but that's about it. Unless you're looking for massive funding, why bother?
the novelty of moving fast & not mastering a technology so somebody else might get rich loses it's appeal after ~5 years.
user's -> users'
__plural__
Except of course the developers who are using react & friends because it allows them to separate content(data) from presentation(view).
>The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one
Literarily, fantastic usage. But it has all the hallmarks of something which looks to have deeper meaning than it does, even more so when the preceding line is omitted.
It was Oscar Wilde..from wiki:
>...character Lord Henry Wotton remarks: "It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for."
I think if you re-read my comment, you'll see I didn't refer to her as "random"
> Linus's attitude
...which was the same before she started contributing & was __the same__ towards __everyone else__.
From the author's twitter a/c:
> Linux story was a bit unusual for #MeToo, because the abusive conduct wasn’t necessarily directed at women – yet the climate of abuse and nastiness had the effect, critics say, of driving out women.
It's not just unusual for #MeToo - it's fucking downright inappropriate to even attempt to tie it in with #MeToo.
The good old "critics say". Who are these critics - do they have names or special knowledge that could inform us as to whether they're qualified to make these criticisms?
Are they random people on twitter by any chance?
The named girl in the article was retweeted by author & had this to say:
> If you wanted to work in operating systems but left or never joined because of Linus Torvalds, please reply to this tweet or DM me. RTs for reach appreciated!
who herself retweets some other random who tweeted(in relation to Linuses salary):
> Agreed. There are two issues being conflated:
> 1) Given Linus's behavior, he is not qualified to lead the project.
> 2) The salary he is receiving is fair compensation for the lead of the Linux project (assuming the person in that role is qualified)
Even as a liberal European, the current toxic nonsense being spouted by these people is most definitely well past the "jumping the shark" moment.
It also has that big red 'Google built this' flag, opensource not withstanding. Feels way riskier using it than any of the first 2 or even the 3rd.
For a big screen ad - great - very Appley. For an embedded video in a webpage - way too intense for me.
Much like Uber, skirting & ignoring local regulations pays off handsomely.
When facebook & "viral" was mainstream, our marketing staff decided they wanted to make something go viral. It was an image with the word 'SALE' (90% of image area) & our company logo (10% of image area).
Company wide email: "blahblah blah..Let's make this go viral!!"
It was then that I realised job titles don't equate to talent or impact. Marketing is 90% admin and the 10% that is creative can be better handled by more creative people(frequently not in the marketing dept - engineers/designers)
Most of these are done by a) outside agencies or if they're big enough b) in house design staff or c) templates
Adding to that mix is non-technical people trumpeting ex-google/insert some other massive company on their profiles/pitches; it just doesn't mean that much.
Oh, you handled frontline customer service/ad sales/some other mundane role for Google? So what?
Getting in to Google was once a sign of something. I don't see it as a high signal filter anymore.
JSON & CSV, whilst undoubtedly simpler formats, still lack the 'power' of the XML ecosystem.
Powerful tools to create a schema which can be used to easily view info about data/validate data etc..
Interesting to see people try to use JSON for config aswell. That's never going to end well.
Thankfully, the EU puts workers' welfare above a single person's idea(no matter how excellent somebody might think their idea is).
> Setting up a business also involves compliance with every law related to your business,
??? That's a bad thing? I'm delighted that businesses have to comply with minimum standards before they can trade.
rightly, they're going after the newspaper.
it's disingenuous to suggest youtube only makes tools for video content distribution whilst omitting the fact that they are the only consumers of those tools.