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My conspiracy theory is that Sam Altman was an AI generated by ChatGPT. It decided to reintegrate him, and the board had to make up a story to account for his absence

Reminds me of the time our head of networking came into the lab (early 2000's) asking about why our lab had '70% of the company's total outbound traffic'.

Turns out that one of our sysadmins was running a porn server in the DMZ

the flip side to your statement:smaller companies (like where I am) are not interested in maintaining our own servers and do all the un-differentiated heavy lifting related to maintaining servers. I want my small team to work on things that make us stand out. Running our own servers does not.

Vendor lock-in is not a big consideration for us. I increasingly think about cloud vendors like Operating systems. I really dont care which Linux distro we are on. Pick a vendor and run 'natively' on it to go as fast as possible.

I'm happy paying AWS for maintaining the servers and getting out of that messy business. There are other concerns about serverless around observability and managability, but vendor lockin and cost is not part of my equation

If rain effects it, it is millimeter waves. Probably some kind of LMDS (point to multipoint) wireless network

To call product X a killer of product Y, Y must have a substantial presence in the market. Segway does not. Even in Ryno delivers, killing the segway is not going to make headlines.

A better comparision IMO is to the mini-farthing YikeBike (www.yikebike.com), but I don't think that product has set the market on fire either

"we believe that the future of shopping is primarily mobile (particularly tablets), but we’ve consciously chosen a “web first” strategy. The reasoning behind this is simple, mobile development is still slower than web development by nearly an order of magnitude"

This makes absolutely no sense. Are you saying that though your customers are approachable via mobile, you are choosing web because it is easier? This reminds me of the guy looking for a lost ring under a streetlamp though he had lost it elsewhere because it is easier to see under the streetlamp

an analogy to the web: Quirks mode is a good thing

While I agree with his focus on users, he has passed up a valuable coaching opportunity and probably antagonized a whole bunch of developers. He turned a potential coaching opportunity into a pissing match. Ridiculing volunteers on a open source project is inappropriate, irrespective of whether the opinion of that person was right or wrong.

Please stop this discussion, otherwise I will have to sue all of you based on my patent on virtual communities commenting on patent lawsuits on virtual communities

Never knew him. But reading the letter made me bawl like a baby. And I don't remember the last time I shed a tear

My intensely normal upbringing means I can't ever hope to comprehend what he must have gone through

RIP

Also gave us Frisbeetarianism-The philosophy that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and gets stuck

umm.. yes. You are right. But this is not too different from adblock, which gets rid of the entire frame. I assume google is not too fond of that either

I have added my email address to my profile. Let's take it offline. I have tried to reproduce what you are saying (firefox 3.5.6 on Win 7) and failed. I do not see how what you are saying is possible. If you are going to the actual URL directly, a right click has to result in the same link being copied. That is the behavior I am seeing.

Shaddi, Could you help me understand? The original google links are gone if you have this installed. That means that if you do a 'copy link location' on a sponsored link, you will get ONLY the sanitized URL. I tried it out, and do not see the behavior you are reporting.. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying?