This is so much fun. It's kind of like RPG. There are 3 character classes.
1. Asshole: just goes straight after the green square.
2. Prankster: draws arrows pointing to the wrong exits.
3. Batman: stays on the button and clicks.
I've tried all three characters. Playing prankster is fun (I was a true trickster and sometimes drew the right arrow). Playing asshole is boring. Playing Batman is ok.
My apologies to all the guys/gals who followed the wrong arrow.
Many, many thanks to the author.
Also, I haven't seen so many poorly drawn dicks and swastikas since grade school.
Personal experience: weird jargon is a good thing. I've read a book on Hadoop once and it didn't use weird jargon - everything was in my native language. It was super hard to read - basically I needed to translate the book from my native language into English in my mind.
What was wrong with the honest: "We'll show ads to the first-time Firefox users, so we can make extra money with our free product. We'll show ads only once"?
"User-first" bit is the textbook example of PRspeak.
He seems to be a normal guy, not a PR genius. But, yeah, "The game with 50,000,000 downloads will be taken off the app stores in the next 22 hours" is brilliant.
Maybe it's just something I don't understand but I would go with Celsius everywhere with converting to Fahrenheit/Kelvin when showing/grabbing temperature to/from user.
I agree. It's not just the algorithm, scale etc. It's the chicken/egg problem - to have a good page ranking you need a lot of usage data from a lot of users and to get a lot of users you need a good page ranking.