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Comment Re:Sounds like they're going to sell and get gutte (Score 1) 115

This is step 1 in trying to sell their flailing business. They obviously don't expect any more growth or they'd stick with running their own servers. Buyers want to know they can carve up the company easily, so migrating to a public cloud gives them some assurances this is possible. They're certainly hoping to get scooped up on their disintegrating brand awareness before there's no value left.

My company tried to buy them out. They responded:

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Thank you for your interest in acquiring Stack Overflow. Unfortunately, your proposal has been closed for the following reasons:

  • Too Broad: Your offer attempts to encompass infrastructure, talent, branding, and existential philosophy in a single transaction. Please narrow the scope to a specific, answerable acquisition.
  • Duplicate: This is a duplicate of several prior offers we've already declined. Please consult [closed: Why hasn't Stack Overflow sold out yet?].
  • Opinion-Based: Statements such as “We think we’d be a good fit culturally” are inherently subjective and not suitable for this kind of transaction.
  • Needs Reproducible Example: You’ve failed to provide a line-item financial breakdown, term sheet, or any working prototype of post-acquisition community support. We require a MCVE.
  • Unclear What You’re Asking: “Let’s talk synergies” is not a clear action item.
  • Off-Topic: We do not currently accept offers relating to the acquisition of community-driven Q&A platforms. This belongs on corporate-takeovers.meta.stackexchange.com.
  • Contains AI-generated Content: While parts of your proposal were cleverly worded, we detected traces of ChatGPT hallucination. Please edit the offer to reflect your own due diligence.

If you believe this closure was in error, feel free to [edit] your offer to meet community standards and flag for moderator review.

With regards,
Stack Overflow, Inc.
“Not every problem belongs here.”

Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 21

But privacy and data protection has become one of the main selling points for Apple in the last decade or so. They tried to bridge the gap with their "Privat Cloud Compute" approach, but this is so complex and hard to understand (and to implement) that nobody will really care, they will just see "all my data will be processed in the Cloud just as Google does it" and that's it.

From the summary, it seems Apple is asking them to train a model that will run on Apple's private servers, thus maintaining privacy.

Comment Re:no (Score 1) 50

The George Foreman grill is called the George Foreman grill specifically because it didn't even catch on as a concept until it had its namesake celebrity endorser. What did an electric countertop grill have do to with boxing? Absolutely nothing, but Foreman was a charismatic spokesman and it didn't hurt that the grill actually did what it says on the side of the box.

During his boxing career Foreman often talked about how much he loved to eat, typically two steaks or "two Big Macs at a time." The grill was a natural fit.

Comment Re: lol (Score 1) 83

The inability to edit posts is an intentional design decision, not due to lack of caring or skill. The problems with being able to edit a post after someone has moderated it or replied to it should be obvious to everyone here.

A brief window of time for editing an unmoderated and reply-free post might be a reasonable compromise.

Comment Re:Be careful what you ask for (Score 2) 32

They could have ALLOWED for external payments, but they could have required that apps provide the option of paying via the Apple store.

There was only one voice of sanity there - Phil Schiller has long been advocating for changes like that, but Apple loved that huge cut and was blinded to reality by its allure. They're paying the price now. One of their execs just might even see some jail time for perjury.

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