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OK so Google pays Apple around $13,000,000,000 per year. How much does Facebook pay Apple?

To avoid a competition lawsuit from the justice department.

> What would that payment be for from Facebook? To live. This is Tim’s town and if you think you’re doing business and cutting Tim out then you’ve got $10b concrete boots coming.

Facebook failed to pay the big money to Apple that they should have been paying for years. If Zuck had been handing Apple $5,000,000,000 per year as google does, then Apple would n…

It’s hard to explain now, but in the old days it mattered. Sometimes software was written by employees just because they wanted to, because they thought it was a good idea, and it …

The message however is this: An organized software development process kills innovation That’s true for startups as well as big companies. A company of four people could have a dea…

So in non-corporate speak, the company is so slow, and the workload on developers so light, you have time to do whatever you want? Wouldn’t dedicating that time to a project benefi…

In the old days, corporate rebels could almost secretly - but often simply openly and casually - run special projects to create new and innovative software. Modern software process…

I.e sites that are not companies and not trying to sell anything? Presumably advertisements are ok.

>>> The web platform is well on its way to becoming the dominant platform for application distribution. Errrr…. yes, “on its way”.

Weird headline wording suggests grammerly is wrong and this guy fixed it.

All cosmos related reporting must say something like; “these strands indicate the possibility of life on other worlds”.

Batman made exactly the same thing for Commissioner Gordon to use… the Bat Signal.

The new CEO does not impress with the killing off of jobs. Instead, he should have cut the price from a stupid $500 per ad to $50 per ad. Companies have money to spend on job ads, …

There’s people who think using a database as a queue is bad, but if you keep pressing then for tangible reasons, it usually turns out to be emotional …… they just don’t like the id…

Databases have the same problems when disks fail, power goes out etc.

Batching up writes means greater risk if data loss compared to immediate writes.

You don’t even need a database to implement an effective queueing mechanism. Linux file move is atomic, which means file system based queues are perfectly viable. Just save one mes…