Ten years ago I could use the upvote arrows on HN w/o JavaScript.
The web, on this day 10 years ago
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Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#32Ten years ago I could use the upvote arrows on HN w/o JavaScript.
So nothing has changed.
Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#33Haha, the HN post about Facebook has a very interesting comment which mentions the internet "a decade from now": > It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke. > FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates. > The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so. > If FB gets sold for $6 billion,…
Sounds like people talking about Uber today. "No way in hell is Uber worth xxx billion. An Absolute joke. Uber is losing xxx million dollars every quarter. Who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Uber by spending that much money?"
I mean this tells me that engineers (assuming on average there are more technical readers on hacker news) don't know anything about products and their values. Or it's just that people aren't capable of thinking long-term.
Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#34Wow. 10 years ago today, a Breitbart link was at the top of the reddit front page. Huh...
Ron Paul and libertarianism were also super popular on Reddit back in the day. I remember that influencing a lot of my early political thinking.
Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#35Haha, the HN post about Facebook has a very interesting comment which mentions the internet "a decade from now": > It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke. > FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates. > The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so. > If FB gets sold for $6 billion,…
Sounds like people talking about Uber today. "No way in hell is Uber worth xxx billion. An Absolute joke. Uber is losing xxx million dollars every quarter. Who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Uber by spending that much money?" I mean this tells me that engineers (assuming on average there are more technical readers on hacker news) don't know anything about products and thei…
Err, except Uber is actually in big trouble...
Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#36Hacker News comments age about as well as Donald Trump's tweets regarding the Obama administration.
Why are you already introducing politics into this discussion?
> introducing politics
Any discussion about company valuations is as political as a discussion about US elections. Pretending that "business" and "politics" and "technology" are separated by clearly discernible walls is itself toxic to discussions about any of them.
Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like people talking about Uber today. "No way in hell is Uber worth xxx billion. An Absolute joke. Uber is losing xxx million dollars every quarter. Who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Uber by spending that much money?" I mean this tells me that engineers (assuming on average there are more technical readers on hacker news) don't know anything about products and thei…
Err, except Uber is actually in big trouble...
Do you think that trouble will last the next ten years?
Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#38Haha, the HN post about Facebook has a very interesting comment which mentions the internet "a decade from now": > It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke. > FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates. > The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so. > If FB gets sold for $6 billion,…
Sounds like people talking about Uber today. "No way in hell is Uber worth xxx billion. An Absolute joke. Uber is losing xxx million dollars every quarter. Who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Uber by spending that much money?" I mean this tells me that engineers (assuming on average there are more technical readers on hacker news) don't know anything about products and thei…
The accountants do and Uber's balance sheet makes them wonder if they will be as powerful in 10 years as yahoo is now.
Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago
#39Haha, the HN post about Facebook has a very interesting comment which mentions the internet "a decade from now": > It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke. > FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates. > The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so. > If FB gets sold for $6 billion,…
Sounds like people talking about Uber today. "No way in hell is Uber worth xxx billion. An Absolute joke. Uber is losing xxx million dollars every quarter. Who in their right mind thinks that they will all of a sudden make a profit off Uber by spending that much money?" I mean this tells me that engineers (assuming on average there are more technical readers on hacker news) don't know anything about products and thei…
Or maybe different things are different, and pointing at facebooks unlikely story to make a case for ubers long-term chances or broad claims about what engineers do or dont know is just as lazy as shunning uber without substantial insight into the field.