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We live in the age of wonders. The internet and mobile devices create endless possibilities for people to communicate, learn and interact. And at Facebook, a company which can, if it chooses, pick from among the brightest engineering minds and focus their efforts on any problem it chooses, the power to concentrate years of programming knowledge on the capabilities afforded to us by this astonishing bounty of personal…
Did you know there are over 150 varieties of Finches? Each slightly different, maybe color difference or a larger beak or bigger wingspan. They came about by iterating on the Finches that came before. In fact, that's how most advancements come about in nature, poetry, art, and yes, even technology. We take what came before an iterate on it. I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't. Ph…
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> So I do kind of have to ask: is making random tweaks to the genome of the photo sharing application in the hope they'll be successful really the best use of the talents of all those developers? These developers CHOOSE to work at Facebook. If they don't feel as though re-inventing the slide show would be the best use of their time, there are thousands of companies which do cooler stuff that would GLADLY have them. M…
Tens of thousands?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So I do kind of have to ask: is making random tweaks to the genome of the photo sharing application in the hope they'll be successful really the best use of the talents of all those developers? These developers CHOOSE to work at Facebook. If they don't feel as though re-inventing the slide show would be the best use of their time, there are thousands of companies which do cooler stuff that would GLADLY have them. M…
Tens of thousands?
We live in the age of wonders. The internet and mobile devices create endless possibilities for people to communicate, learn and interact. And at Facebook, a company which can, if it chooses, pick from among the brightest engineering minds and focus their efforts on any problem it chooses, the power to concentrate years of programming knowledge on the capabilities afforded to us by this astonishing bounty of personal…
Did you know there are over 150 varieties of Finches? Each slightly different, maybe color difference or a larger beak or bigger wingspan. They came about by iterating on the Finches that came before. In fact, that's how most advancements come about in nature, poetry, art, and yes, even technology. We take what came before an iterate on it. I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't. Ph…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you know there are over 150 varieties of Finches? Each slightly different, maybe color difference or a larger beak or bigger wingspan. They came about by iterating on the Finches that came before. In fact, that's how most advancements come about in nature, poetry, art, and yes, even technology. We take what came before an iterate on it. I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't. Ph…
Marvellous. I'm going to start flipping random bits in memory. In a few million years I might have an interesting piece of software.
It's obvious this is just another Facebook experiment to see if it sticks. To criticize the idea head on is dumb, I'm sure the people who built it have their own skepticism as well. Probably easy to build and launch, so they did. Criticize their methods (like focusing on photo/video apps in general, or on mass experimentation), not the specifics of experiments themselves if you want to be taken seriously. The least p…
You're also arguing, it seems, that there's now a condition in the app marketplace where people building things have no real understanding of what will play in the marketplace, so developers shouldn't think too hard about whether or not an app idea is a good idea by any criteria, other than "Build it -- you never know what the plebes will go for."
That may be how things seem to those of us who weren't lucky enough to build a stupid app and get rich off it, but who's gonna write that business book for McGraw-Hill?