I like Musk's lens: the sun is 99.8% of the galaxy's total mass and over 99.99% of its energy production. Pretty straight-forward where you want to be getting your energy from.
I've been spending some time with Jeff Atwood's Discourse* lately. Meaty new concepts and taught me a lot.
Ruby on Rails + Emberjs. Nice to see how they've integrated the two technologies and how some of the decisions they've are very different from the Ruby community at large (SQL queries over Active Record pattern, data serializers etc).
Nothing is forever. Facebook did great and will be around for many years to come but history strongly suggests that it will go the way of AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft etc.
History repeating itself, Facebook will go the way of AOL and Yahoo. The real winners are the future entrepreneurs who will receive funding from the thousand odd millionaires this has made
Agreed, I'm kinda surprised so many people are talking about it. You might as well write a series on whether to be religious or not... nobody's business but yours.
It would be interesting to show the salaries as a ratio of average cost of living and then compare it to Madison Ave salaries in the 80's... my bet is average has gone dowwwwwwwn.
Algorithms are certainly good at finding patterns in large data-sets, couple this with some talented writing at a high level and you may have a news service of the future.
I guess the closest you can come is:
- having people around you who have similar standards
- a culture of constantly questioning everything
- a business unit that understands the importance of overcoming tech debt
It's not a nail int the coffin by any means but you would think it would make strategic sense for them to be making a concerted effort to get people using their service at a conference like WWDC ala Twitter/Foursquare... big missed opportunity to get influential people using their service.