throwaway63-90's comments

Love it. Nice job Joe.

Hey, listen, reading is not for everyone.

You need to be smart, like Jeff Atwood.

Can you believe that programmers look up to this guy?

What does that say about programmers?

I like it. Much better than my suggestion.

Interesting.

With Excel, I'm not sure. But if customers who are getting increasingly greater exposure to UNIX, through various channels, learn about UNIX alternatives to Active Directory and Exchange that work as well or better, but which cost less, it may well come to pass.

Imagine you have somethng to sell, I have the ability to place ads in people's homes via their electronic devices and I give you the choice of placing an ad for your product in one of two places.

You can place the ad into everyone's photo albums so that when they are flipping through photos they will see your ad.

Or you can place your ad in everyone's telephone book so when they are looking up the contact information for some source of some product, they will see your ad.

Which one would you choose?

Of course, in the real world, advertisers can choose both. They will advertise both on Google and Facebook.

And sure, it matters what the product is.

But overall which do you think is more valuable?

Finally a sensible analysis.

Some people are just in a kind of Facebook daze.

"Hey, they had income for 3 years in a row. One billion last year. This is a sure winner."

They refuse to look at what Facebook actually does.

People will probably read your post and think you're biased because you work for Google. But there's a huge difference in what Google Plus can accomplish. You guys have the search engine data (intent) to combine with the social data.

So why doesn't Microsoft let Facebook combine with Bing? Then they would have a search engine. Or are they planning to do that already?

The thing is, people consider scripting to be "coding".

Many people who write scripts in Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. call themselves coders.

But if they were tasked with writing in assembly or C they could not do it.

And how do we know Atwood himself can even do it.

Show us Atwood's C programming and let's have a look.

It's probably full of security holes.

Alsup: "How could you even make that argument?"

Oracle: "Because Oracle is paying me to make losing arguments?

Because I can't code, and I don't need to? I get paid to file lawsuits.

Judge Alsup, I'm just a caveman lawyer..."

Read the NYTimes blog post.

"Revenue eXtraction Gateway" (RG)

They tried calling the RG helpdesk, and the RG people hung up.

Classic.

Encrypting all internet traffic would put a swift end to this problem.

Developers, developers, developers.

OK, Steve, whatever you say.

It's only a matter of time before they lose their business customers.

Then they are really in trouble.

Google found a business model that works (keyword advertising) before they went public.

Facebook still does not have a business model that works.

Facebook is surviving on investment, not income.

Mark Zuckerberg is billionaire because of Microsoft's and others' investments, not because Facebook is making billions in income.

It's sad that you would even think this way.

Privacy is available, right now, for free. The cost, if there is one, is getting all your friends to stop using a single website started run by a sociopath who does not believe in the idea of privacy and start using an open source peer to peer solution that is not controlled by any single person or entity.

This is a reasonably good blog post, especially the part about Google. However the title is inaccurate. It should be "Facebook's lack of a business model"