Is there a betting pool on how long Zuck stays in charge of FB post-IPO?

I'll start, at, oh, 3.5 years.

  -- 77IM

They've painted themselves into a corner. They experienced rapid "growth" by decreasing the bottom line. Now investors expect that, and so in order to keep up, they must continue aggressively decreasing the bottom line. If they stop, their stock price will drop as growth slows dramatically. It sucks for all involved, because eventually they'll run out of bottom line to cut, and then everybody's screwed except the investors (and executives) who sell just before that happens.

This is exactly the sort of thing Steve Jobs was talking about in the quote about bean-counters taking over the company and loss of product focus. Making enterprise software on an IBM scale, and doing it well enough to grow constantly, is really super hard. Short-term gains through off-shoring are easy.

  -- 77IM

I have no idea wtf a logic analyzer is, but I am really really glad that there's a genuine, useful thing out there called "Logic Shrimp."

  -- 77IM

No, he's saying that instead of spending tons of money making games LOOK and SOUND better, they should spend that money on making games PLAY better.

  -- 77IM

The judge agrees with you. He's trying to warn you. His warning is that it's all too easy for government agents to fall into the trap of thinking that you describe when people do not actively guard their own privacy. He's not saying that this is right and proper, he's describing the world as it is, not as it should be.

  -- 77IM, we need a moderation "-1, Clearly Didn't RTFA"

Let me rephrase your rephrase:
"Law enforcement will not respect people who do not respect themselves."

I believe the phrase you want is "They were victims of their own success."

It's a pattern that repeats constantly. Arguing against results is hard, and usually stupid. When some new kid comes along and says, "Let's stop doing X, which has been tremendously successful, and switch to Y, which is the next new thing?" the rational response is "How's 'New Coke' selling these days?" And yet, that new kid will be right some small % of the time. How can we determine when that guy is correct?

THAT's the question we should all be asking about Kodak.

  -- 77IM

As a parent of two small children, I've been forced to do "segmented sleep" for extended periods (our babies were not good eaters so we had to wake them up in the middle of the night for a feeding). It sucks, and I'm positive that I'm not the only parent to have experienced this.

Just going to sleep in the evening and waking up in the morning feels a lot better and more natural to me.

  -- 77IM

The key to making these meetings go fast is: participants are not allowed to interrupt, discuss, or ask questions while other people are giving status updates. It makes the status updates go really fast. Afterwards, people can stick around and discuss if they want, but are free to leave if they don't need to be part of that discussion.

  -- 77IM

Maybe the real quiz is whether you're geeky enough to figure out how to load the quiz.

  -- 77IM

...for calling them "criminals" and not "cyber-criminals."

But it's only been five years since she became an adult. She was a minor at the time of the incident. Often, time doesn't start counting against the Statute of Limitations for a minor until they become an adult. So the crime could still be within the limit. Maybe this works differently in Texas though.

  -- 77IM

Standards-compliant HTML 5? Or some weird Microsoft "extension" that gets popular enough to do damage, but not popular enough to take over (think IE 6)?

  -- 77IM

It's our only sure defense against the Cylon menace!

FYI, that icon to the right of the article is not Mister Pedantic, it's Bill Gates.

  -- 77IM