Is there some other meaning that i'm not aware of?
Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary
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#12"The first ten years were about bootstrapping this network." Can somebody please enlighten me on what he means here? I had previously thought that "bootstrapping" is a term reserved by those who are developing with little resources? Is there some other meaning that i'm not aware of?
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#13"The first ten years were about bootstrapping this network." Can somebody please enlighten me on what he means here? I had previously thought that "bootstrapping" is a term reserved by those who are developing with little resources? Is there some other meaning that i'm not aware of?
"In computer technology the term (usually shortened to booting) usually refers to the process of loading the basic software into the memory of a computer after power-on or general reset, especially the operating system which will then take care of loading other software as needed." So I'm assuming they are saying that they "creating the necessary software/infrastructure for the network to run on", rather than using i…
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#14You guys wanna check out "A Look Back" [0]. It shows your highlights and moments in Facebook. It feels good reminiscing those moments. I wonder though, did they generate the look back videos for all of their users? I think that will require massive computation power.
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#19I remember being on Facebook in its infancy. When the user's "wall" was just a that was editable by anybody. I used to change the comments left by friends of friends to humorous effect (at least in my mind). Does anybody else remember this? Or did I dream this up?
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#20Happy 10th birthday Facebook! You have such a love and hate relationship with more than a billion people around the world. Awesome. You guys wanna check out "A Look Back" [0]. It shows your highlights and moments in Facebook. It feels good reminiscing those moments. I wonder though, did they generate the look back videos for all of their users? I think that will require massive computation power. [0] https://www.face…