I did not realize until this point that it was this very Numair who wrote this brilliant answer on Quora http://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-difficult-to-build-a-music...
I was once a Facebook fool
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Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#152Wow, well, this got way more attention than I wanted. First, to be clear -- I have nothing against the guy who took Dave Morin's job (who wasn't supposed to be named -- Amazon CloudFront didn't bother to invalidate its cache when I uploaded the final edit of that paper). He played his cards right, came out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead, and then he got out . He's not in this to control your social life or any…
I didn't get what you mean by 'not web-scale'
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Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#153Wow, well, this got way more attention than I wanted. First, to be clear -- I have nothing against the guy who took Dave Morin's job (who wasn't supposed to be named -- Amazon CloudFront didn't bother to invalidate its cache when I uploaded the final edit of that paper). He played his cards right, came out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead, and then he got out . He's not in this to control your social life or any…
I didn't get what you mean by 'not web-scale'
i guess his point was that the reason the web works at all, or tcp/ip, or email, or any of the really successful platforms - is because of certain contracts of openness and (essentially) fair play that are built into the very structure of how they are built.
this openness allows them to scale to that level and without it you can't get to truly global scale.
Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great links, Reg! That said, here is good opportunity to prosper on other peoples' platforms, but diversify.
And when Facebook says to either remove your widget from Google+, or it will be removed from Facebook? Diversification is at their pleasure too.
Then you should contact the antitrust authorities: This is a blatant anti-competitive behavior if there is one...
Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? Sharecropping exists when landowners have limited access to capital, but extensive land holdings and abundant access to indigent labor. It was a technique devised to keep the tenant around until after harvest time. Poor farmers have lots of children, and the large resulting labor force gives the landlord an incentive to evict the tenant or jack up the rent immediately after harvest. It was popular in places like…
Sharecropping is an arrangement with a land owner who rents out their land to a farmer for the payment of a percentage of the crop instead of cash. It reduces the risk for the farmer because they only have to pay based on what they are able to grow instead of a fixed amount as seen in most cash-rent arrangements. The landowner stands to lose if the crop is a failure, but can make more if the crop is a success. The te…
the term everyone means is not sharecropping its Farm renting...the Big farm owner rents out certain parcels because he has neither the time nor the labor and equipment to plant and harvest...
But, like the much maligned sharecropping its heavily tipped in the Farm owners favor.
Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#156Wow, well, this got way more attention than I wanted. First, to be clear -- I have nothing against the guy who took Dave Morin's job (who wasn't supposed to be named -- Amazon CloudFront didn't bother to invalidate its cache when I uploaded the final edit of that paper). He played his cards right, came out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead, and then he got out . He's not in this to control your social life or any…
It isn't about the platform, you are completely missing that. Not about Ayn Rand's "amorality" defining SV, which didn't even work out for herself. Those are just a lowly technical tools and excuses.
As you say, it is about the age-old money and power. There is nothing social about those, except for being a substrate to create the two for the "amoral" without deep social and ethical level.
Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think he's saying Facebook is like water. I think he's saying facebook is NOT like a stable utility like water or power.
From the top-level comment: " this is very basic and very global stuff, similar to water or power, and you shouldn't have to question its integrity. " So yes, unless my English fails me, he is indeed saying that social networking is (or should be) like a utility.
It is a metaphorical comparison. I believe he is saying FB has become so ubiquitous and pervasive in our lives, that in the social media it dominates as a fundamental utility. It has become so important to 100's of millions of people and that there is little recourse if you did not want to use them. and yes there is Google plus, but there is not enough people on that service currently to rival the social interactions of Facebook. And regardless of how well a service is designed it is pointless if you can't have the same level of interaction with other people.
I think a better comparison would be the monopoly AT&T had over long distance telephone service in the mid-20th century. It was not as essential to living as water or power was but still seen as a monopoly and was broken up into the Baby Bells. I think Facebook falls in that category while you can definitely live your life without it, it has become the de facto place for social interaction. That being the case, you should not have to worry about the integrity or perhaps the malicious behavior of said company.
Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#158I was once a Facebook fool, now I'm just a Facebook tool.
Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#159Facebook was designed to provide corporate America with your email addresses. There are over 400 known hacks. Every-time you click on a link to Facebook - it's moron+1.
Re: I was once a Facebook fool
#160Facebook, the world's easiest site to hack, is on the front page 3 times yet again today. But the links are not about hacking, they are about how great Facebook is.
I submit to you that this is not hacker news, but rather victim news.com.
Good luck fuckers.