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OK so Google pays Apple around $13,000,000,000 per year.

How much does Facebook pay Apple?

To avoid a competition lawsuit from the justice department.

> What would that payment be for from Facebook?

To live.

This is Tim’s town and if you think you’re doing business and cutting Tim out then you’ve got $10b concrete boots coming.

Facebook failed to pay the big money to Apple that they should have been paying for years.

If Zuck had been handing Apple $5,000,000,000 per year as google does, then Apple would never have kneecapped Facebook.

Larry and Sergei know how the protection racket works. You pay your dues to the local mob, you get to do business in their street corners.

What do google pay Apple $5b for? Ummm… to be in the search of Safari. Yeah right. They all know google simply pays Apple because they don’t want no trouble, so they say “Safari”, write a huge cheque, and google gets to keep doing business in Apple devices.

Tim is The Godfather. He who owns the platform owns the city. Everyone must respect and pay their dues, if they want to do business in this city.

Apple has sent Facebook to sleep with the fishes because zuck didn’t show no respect and didn’t pay no dues.

It’s hard to explain now, but in the old days it mattered. Sometimes software was written by employees just because they wanted to, because they thought it was a good idea, and it wasn’t planned and organized and ticketed and budgeted and scheduled.

And sometimes it saved the company.

The message however is this: An organized software development process kills innovation

That’s true for startups as well as big companies.

A company of four people could have a dead software process just because it’s super organized, with jira, tickets, sprints, user stories, CI/CD, testing deployment and monitoring.

The more organized your software process, the more dead it is, in terms of creativity and innovation.

So in non-corporate speak, the company is so slow, and the workload on developers so light, you have time to do whatever you want?

Wouldn’t dedicating that time to a project benefiting the company be an admission that you’re under utilized and slacking off?

>>> The web platform is well on its way to becoming the dominant platform for application distribution.

Errrr…. yes, “on its way”.

Weird headline wording suggests grammerly is wrong and this guy fixed it.

All cosmos related reporting must say something like; “these strands indicate the possibility of life on other worlds”.

Batman made exactly the same thing for Commissioner Gordon to use… the Bat Signal.

The new CEO does not impress with the killing off of jobs.

Instead, he should have cut the price from a stupid $500 per ad to $50 per ad.

Companies have money to spend on job ads, but not if it’s a $500 rip off price gouge.

StackOverflow doesn’t really understand it’s own business and how to make money, despite having the eyeballs of millions of developers.

There’s people who think using a database as a queue is bad, but if you keep pressing then for tangible reasons, it usually turns out to be emotional …… they just don’t like the idea.

Next time someone says it’s a bad idea, keep pressing for real answers, not emotion.

Databases have the same problems when disks fail, power goes out etc.

Batching up writes means greater risk if data loss compared to immediate writes.

You don’t even need a database to implement an effective queueing mechanism.

Linux file move is atomic, which means file system based queues are perfectly viable. Just save one message per file. Move the file to a different directory when it changes state.

I built a prototype queue around this mechanism. Performance was bound to the disks ability to create small files, around 30,000 messages per second.

This sort of performance rivals some of much more sophisticated and complex queuing systems, but has zero configuration.