There’s a Dirty Unix Joke in the New York Times’ Facebook Backlash Story

The amount of free publicity they've gotten carries a huge risk though, which is that people will be over-expecting, probably leading to them being scolded for under-delivering. The general feeling seems to be that these 4 are going to roll out a distributed facebook by September first or so. I've pulled a few all nighters in my life, I think they're not quite aware yet of how difficult this really is.

I'm loathe to discourage them though, figure that plenty of people succeeded simply because they didn't know that what they were doing was impossible.