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News is ripe for disruption. News was a better business when it was harder to find out what was happening in the world because of difficulty in transporting information and media. That's all gone now.

Has Buffet heard of Twitter?

News aggregators like Huffington Post?

The only thing I think news papers have over citizen journalists is credibility, editorial and writing quality. Decent news analysis can be derived from prominent bloggers.

I wouldn't want to be in the business of any kind of content creation in the long term. Copyright as a concept is going to be fundamentally challenged in the next few generations.

Newspapers are just whistling past the graveyard right now.
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The services receive messages from the router, then send messages to whatever they need to call to get the job done. Being sent messages by the framework is what makes it a framework and not a library; I don't get your objection here.

If it was a framework modelled in an object oriented way it would itself be built of classes exchanging messages, but it isn't. It encourages you to also structure your code in a non object oriented way by creating hundreds of little services which are basically procedure calls instead of making your model accept a wider variety of messages or instead of building classes with more than just a "call" method. Most of the code is supposed to go directly into the services, that's the whole point of the framework, remember it is a solution to the "fat model" problem:

One in particular is something I've been thinking about and refining for a while now [3]. In this approach, persistence objects remain extremely thin, and business logic is encapsulated in lots of very simple objects known as “services” and “policies”.

Also, keep in mind that the services do not normally call each other (they could in theory, but that would be even more awkward), so instead of having message exchange between models you have duplicated code in services or have to use inheritance. Ruby is object oriented so sure there are message calls further down, it doesn't make the framework object oriented on the logical level.

Only if you're conflating domain objects with persistence objects.

Must you go as far as to refer to a hypothetical reality just to win an argument ;) ? That's how Rails works, that's what the examples show, I am not referring to what is possible in theory, but to what the framework does and the most reasonable possible way of using it. Honestly one more level of indirection would make this look completely ridiculous.

They're statically dispatched on a constant name, not on a class. If you need polymorphism at that point, it's trivial to define a dynamic service resolver - all you need is something with a #new method assigned to the constant to do whatever late binding you want.

Ehm, no? You cannot just define a "new" method returning whatever you want neither in a module nor in a class in Ruby. You would have to overwrite the initialization methods that are usually hidden from the user. Passing a constant name is almost equivalent to passing a class.

module Foo
def new
5
end
end

puts Foo.new.inspect
# undefined method `new' for Foo:Module (NoMethodError)

class Bar
def new
5
end
end

puts Bar.new.inspect
# #<Bar:0xa146324>
Of course, this is all based on current information of revenue... but people don't pay for current business, they pay for potential of business (research), and FB seems to have some decent research.
Probably not, but it would make for quite the legal headache for him. (Not to mention the board meetings)
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Facebook should trade for what Facebook is trading at at the moment in time Facebook is trading.

The end.
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As I said in the topmost parent thread, "you can be sure that this incident will create additional requirements and restrictions for the [honest] entrepreneurs who still remain in the building."

Many successful entrepreneurs engage in social hacking in some way. What the entrepreneur in this case did was both unethical and illegal.

Just because you have a key to someone's house doesn't mean you get to open their front door and sleep on their couch.
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There are 892 unique arrangements of unit rectangles in a 3x4 grid when you consider two arrangement which are rotations or mirror images of one another to be the same arrangement. When you count each arrangement and any rotations/mirror-images of that arrangement, there are 3,164 partitions.

Example: This partition:

+-+---+-+
| | | |
| | +-+
| | |
| | |
+-+-----+

...is just a rotation of this partition:

+-+---+-+
| | |
| | |
+-+ | |
| | | |
+-+---+-+

There are 3,164 partitions if we say the above figures are distinct; if we call the above figures the same partition (but shown in two different orientations) then there are only 892 partitions.
The author is assuming that stock performance is inherently linked to internal company metrics, which is simply a naive assumption. P/E ratio is not the holy grail of valuating companies, there are countless other stocks other than GOOG who have been growing for years despite having a huge P/E ratio.
> He used AOL infrastructure to build his company

And when his website opens up it plays "You've Got Mail" which proves it.
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Retards. Hilarious.

10 i = i + 1
20 PRINT i
30 IF i > 100000 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10
40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10
50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

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righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint
the most Holy.

9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the
commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the
Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street
shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but
not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with
a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
That page hasn't really done much for my opinion of Facebook. I constantly run into it when trying to access public static content with an "unsupported" browser.
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There's a reason why PG used the word "naughty" and not "criminal." In this case, we're talking about the latter.
I'd say trespassing would qualify as one of the rules that matters. Or really, any law. You can't build a company like that.

It's fine to break unwritten rules of decorum, or question conventional wisdom. This is another thing all together.
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Unfortunately IMAP is a pretty core part of our infrastructure. Taking a peek at context.io's pricing: we'd fall comfortably in the $30,000 a month range, and wouldn't have all of the realtime processing functionality that we need.
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I've worked at Facebook (internship). They use Chrome/Chromium extensively for development.
My guess is that this is just not a high-priority thing to change. One of Facebook's mantras is "Focus on Impact" (others: "Move Fast", "Be Bold" …). This is not high impact.

There's even proof that they collaborate quite nicely: less than two weeks ago, Facebook engineers went to talk to Chrome DevTools engineers. Goal: improve Chrome's timeline to improve Facebook's Timeline, and vice versa.
Source: https://plus.google.com/113127438179392830442/posts/Kgk78six....
Android isn't google play. You can install any apk files you want onto your android device. No hacking or rooting or jail breaking required.
The researchers found that the revenue of the average company going public between 1996 and 2010 grew by 212% over the five years after its IPO.

Assuming that its five-year return is equal to the stock market’s long-term average return of 11% annualized, Facebook shares currently would need to be trading at just $13.80.

I'm as bearish as anybody on FB but this seems like extremely lazy analysis. FB may be many things but average is certainly not one of them.
>>we are just about the only profession/trade/occupation on the planet that seems to believe that our tools should be free (as in beer).

That is because software development tools like all other software is just data, once written and debugged. Data can be copied at zero cost, which can not be said about physical tools, at least for now.
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with P/E at ~100 there's no way to be bullish if you've got anything resembling a brain... yeah, i don't have amazon either.
And there's also a great and growing set of tools for numerical and data related computation.

Scratch that, the current ongoing dev and research work that is making its way onto the haskell hackage is both astonishing and often superlative code. The libs released in the past month and the ones I know will be made available over the coming months... It's just great work!
(I'm biased owing To using some of these tools for fun and profit :-). )

That aside, Pandas is a really nice piece of engineering that really works. It's a good role model for other libs, even when restricted to just its data frame part
I had to re-read this comment, because initially I thought you were trying to say that Yahoo! should pack up and move to Mexico after suing Facebook.

But yes, I think you're right. The negative backlash that AOL would get for attacking this kid vastly outweighs any sort of benefit they'd get. Now, this is all about spin and PR.
Use a passphrase then if this bothers you?

If you want to be serious about security of your account, use one of the two factor authentication systems available that they offer.

The faster passwords stop looking like:
C@tV0m!t

And start looking like:
correct battery horse staple

the better for security and actually remembering the phrase rather than writing it down.

(XKCD on this: http://xkcd.com/936/)
Interesting. Her LinkedIn page was under Candice Schwager.
Dude has a horse in this race.

EDIT: I should say, he has an interest in moving the market, especially at a time when FB is dominating the online newscycle. I don't think he lacks credibility, I think he lacks a goal here. He's trolling.
You have to factor in all the newbies that here all this doom and gloom about the job market in the media, and the last tidbit in the news story usually mentions "but there is a lot of growth in iPhone and Android apps". This is probably causing a lot of people new to programming to learn Objective-C, thus many more questions.
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The world is rendered in shades of grey, and not all ethical issues carry equal weight. Some are worth sweating, some aren't. This one isn't, according to a representative of the victimized party itself.

(since you apparently missed it the first time)
Agreed. I read this and said "You are looking back to 1996? Seriously?" Now I am sure that the market will figure out what to do with the company but I sure as heck don't see these guys shorting a few hundred million shares.

But there is a lot of challenges in wrapping your head around the economics here as well. This is why a lot of people don't understand Google's profitability either.
Yes, after I registered, I did some search, and start to feel anxious because no comments found anywhere......until I saw this one:)
Several actually. Which means dude probably knows what he is talking about.
If Facebook was $14 a share, I'd sell everything else and buy nothing but FB.
"A newspaper typically generates 70–80% of its revenue from advertising."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper#Advertising.

The real problem is maintaining the advertising client income when going from paper to electronic print.
Being not productive is actually very productive.

So I'm proud to say I sometimes sit in the sun and drink a beer, watch my daughter play, or veg out in front of a TV set playing a PS3 game. When I went to grad school, I got my best ideas during these 'unproductive' moments.
"Plan to throw one away."

That was Fred Brooks, not Richard Brooks.

In one of the best books of all time on the subject of software: The Mythical Man-Month.
Why are you so cautious to "give it a proper go"? It's not a big mental investment.
The difficulty with this is the widely varied price of gasoline. If we assume $4/gal, $100 would buy us 25 gallons of fuel, so we can just multiply those 25 gallons by the MPG:

MPG = Miles per $100 (MPG*25/$_per_gallon)
14 = 350
17 = 425
33 = 825
50 = 1250
Has Buffet heard of Twitter?

Seriously? The guy is a genius. I'm guessing 'yes'.

The only thing I think news papers have over citizen journalists is credibility, editorial and writing quality.

Is that all? Sounds like if you can convince people those things are valuable, they might be willing to pay for it.

I wouldn't want to be in the business of any kind of content creation in the long term.

If by 'content creation' you mean content shoveling, then yes, I agree. But I'm bullish on synthesizing streams of data into cohesive narratives.
Facebook does sort of the same thing:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-no...

Yes, it's possibly less secure. But for both Facebook and all of the Blizzard games there are other options if you are concerned.
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That seemed like a pretty bad way to handle it by Blizzard, though.
'The only thing I think news papers have over citizen journalists is credibility, editorial and writing quality'

Those are pretty big competitive advantages. In fact, I'd say those are the three main factors people use when choosing where to get their news from.
For the amount the artists actually get for the price of the music you pay... The intermediates get a much larger share of the cake. The artists get the crums.
FB is a much larger company than the average IPO. Larger companies often grow slower as they dominate their markets. With 900 million users, it would seem that the developed countries are fairly saturated and won't see much growth in the user base.

I would be interested to see some projections for FB costs over the next five years. They no longer have the lure of pre-IPO equity to attract new employees. They might have to pay higher salaries instead. Many insiders will be cashing out in the coming months and moving on, so I would guess that FB salary costs are going to climb significantly.
Not just credibility. There are multiple kinds of journalism. There's observe something and report it....

... but there's also long, hard, investigative journalism which means tracking multiple complex stories for sometimes years, issuing freedom of information requests, developing contacts in key places etc.

Admittedly journalists have become weaker watchdogs than ever before, perhaps because the media business has made it difficult to tell real hard stories from random shock-value crap by giving everything a shock value edge to keep selling... And perhaps this is what needs to be fixed.
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Apple is in a very strong position, they have an amazing product that people will literally line up to buy. What they don't have is a lock on the market, though, and they know it. They either innovate, keep pushing themselves, or they'll end up steamrollered by someone else.

Remember that in 1995 people did line up to buy Windows 95 and while future launches weren't met with as much fanfare, people would actively seek out computers with Windows on it and had no time for side-show attractions like MacOS or Linux.

Amazing how that can come collapsing down just because of a few mis-steps. You have Vista, you have a near decade of focusing aggressively on the server market and leaving the consumer side to twist in the wind, neglecting their important and dominant Internet Explorer product for the better part of six years.

In other words, Apple is just one Steve Ballmer away from total irrelevance.

The company best situated to take down Apple doesn't exist yet, not in the form it will ultimately be. Maybe Samsung will finally go beyond emulating and will build their own platform that resonates with consumers as well as they'd have you believe in the marketing... Maybe Microsoft will hire new leadership and straighten out the train-wreck that Windows Phone 7 is...

As much as Apple is doing a great job, it's frustrating when there really isn't any competition. We need a market where there are two or three very good choices.

Like Xbox 360 or PS3 or Wii where each have their merits. What will the world be like if that's reduced to just one?
The 1996 to 2000 period was remarkable as the dot-com IPO crazy period. It's the closest, and most optimistic investment environment to what we are seeing today, thus makes a good comparison for making an optimistic valuation model for Facebook.
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Well at least he isn't joking about being greedy when others are scared.
So you don't mind if anyone grabs a dollar from your pocket when you walk out of your house? What if everyone grabbed one?
No. He's not saying that there can't be news out there that's free, he's saying that newspapers releasing free content is unsustainable. I, and many others I believe, agree with him.

I think that "free news" (whatever that ends up being) will win in the end; newspapers giving away the keys to the castle won't make them win (not that I think anything will).
Yes and no... considering FB's incredibly massive eyes on page, today, which might not last... they've been pretty bad about monetizing and they've had about 6 years of knowing they were huge to do it. That's not a great track record (as far as making big returns)
From here, I wonder how many people will realise that they can do without a great deal of what's considered typical news? I was a voracious newspaper reader as a child and watched the nightly news without fail. At present, however, I don't watch TV news, I haven't bought a newspaper in many years and I have deleted bookmarks to every local/general/large news source and try to avoid them beyond that also because they peddle trash day after day chasing mindless pageviews.

"Find out what Miranda Kerr called her new baby! Related news: Gallery of 43 photos we've stolen off the net that we know you can't resist looking through."

Put a paywall in front of all content, and people may start to realise and make a choice.

Is the next generation growing up buying newspapers?
I agree, the mods on that forum seem like they forgot where their last straw went.
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I think looking back at what the original law-makers intended is useful in that it removes the veneer of respectability that something 'enshrined in law' might otherwise have, when people more respectable and revered (authors of the constitution) are shown to have doubted and questioned their (patents) validity. Lastly it shows how far we've come in a (relatively) short time. From "very peculiar cases only, if at all" to inalienable, perpetual rights that monied interests have over ideas.
I mentioned this last time there was a news about this event, but any plans for a Osaka meetup ? :)
Facebook's is a little better - you can't disregard case entirely. Blizzard just cut the search space by a lot.

Then again, it would be pretty difficult to brute force a password in Battle.net, to be honest. I'm assuming they'd lock out the account after just a handful of tries.
Well, in the same forum there's also this: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149150816

I don't understand why there is a 16 character limit on user passwords.
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Although this is a really silly bug, I did already know about it (it's the same in WoW), so frankly at the moment, I'm more concerned about the Diablo 3 bug which is causing a lot of us to not be able to successfully login and play, at all.

Really not good.
They don't (or didn't, I haven't checked in the last few months) allow special characters, either. Seriously - what? (Then again, my bank does the same thing.)
Related, but different in an important way.

If your password is aBc, you can log in to Facebook using aBc (original), AbC (windows caps lock), and ABc (first cap) only. For a regular password, this is just slightly less secure.

Being case insensitive entirely is quite a bit less secure (abc, abC, aBc, aBC, Abc, AbC, ABc, ABC).
Sure. It's not hard to construct all kinds of failure scenarios for FB. I just don't think that crude averages are much use here at all.

In general I think that an average just isn't a very useful statistic. It throws away way too much information.
Correction: free news as a business model is unsustainable - assuming the internet stays the way it is (relatively uncensored).
Google went public in 2004 at ~200x earnings and is up 457% since then.

Apple went public in 1980 at ~100x earnings and is up over 15,000% since then.

I'm not saying that Facebook is Google or Apple, but there's a lot more to analyzing a company than looking at P/E and calling it a day.
That is funny, I was thinking today that one way the newpapers might survive was by going free (we just started getting for free a couple local newspapers)
This is an interesting perspective. The logical conclusion of this perspective is that the people who currently are paid to be reporters, editors, writers, photographers, etc. add little to no value to the world. Similarly, that news can exist without primary sources to exchange on Twitter of for bloggers to write about.

As a counterpoint, I'd suggest that:

1) Most people are not able to obsessively follow everyone on Twitter, and filter through the tweets for the most relevant news. For the first job of a news organ is to filter out the noise.

2) News aggregators must aggregate something. Take the homepage of HuffPo, for instance. Most of the articles posted there are written by people on the HuffPo payroll. Most of the others link to sites where someone was paid to write the article, like the Washington Post. None are direct links to a tweet.

3) Credibility is not an afterthought for most people. We expect our news outlets to at least make an attempt to be credible and/or publicize their biases.

4) Prominent bloggers don't typically interview local officials. Local officials matter, but they are not sexy and often must be visited in person for interviews. The general point here is that very few people will cover some important parts of the news for free, because doing it sucks.