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Most startups do hire a CFO once they raise an A round.

As other comments have already said, Uber is still expanding. They are also spending millions on self-driving car R&D. http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...

> It's insane that people think you need to do all this just to get a live updating counter.

Dismissing this guy's tutorial because he didn't clone Facebook is kind of short sided. Everything is about trade offs. You don't need to make your React app isomorphic if you don't mind a slower initial load and lack of SEO. You don't need to use Mongo, you can pass data from your RDBMS directly to your components as props when you render server side or have them call your REST API using an isomorphic request library. You don't need to use ES6 if you use something like webpack and babel.

>Most people don't believe in it

Most people are quick to change their tune when it's their work that is getting copied.

The hype around this game reminds me of the hype around Spore a decade ago (it didn't live up to it).

Uber also doubled it revenue in that time.

Moderation on 4chan and /b/ has increased over the last year. Mostly to prevent the posting of peoples personal information. But the posting of shock images has also decreased. I don't know if they are being removed as well.

I've never seen a single site that uses Google login over Facebook. Facebook also owns mobile login on the iPhone. Google is closer to shutting down Google+ than winning any war with Facebook.

Those numbers are meaningless without knowing what the code is doing.

Because then it would just be some random person's opinion.

Of course not.

The ciriticism is that malaria is just a symptom of the larger problem of a lack of economic growth and development. Aid can save a child from malaria, but it will never solve the underlying problem.

> I want smart teachers to take control of education so this s* doesn't happen nearly as often as it does.

This is the job of parents, not teachers. What does take control even mean? Public school teachers have no control.

Plenty of spies on all sides have been killed and jailed over the years. If a country can prove a specific person committed a crime. But that's a lot harder to do with tech crimes.

What do you think spying is? By definition it is illegal. Other countries won't do anything but cry a bit because their hands aren't much cleaner.

"Facebook sells your data" was always a stupid charge. Why would they give away their most valuable asset when they can make more money by renting indirect access to it (targeted ads). There are actual data brokers who do sell your data and none of them make anywhere near what Facebook makes. Facebook actually has an incentive to protect your data.

Literally in every Facebook post there is someone saying how their Facebook feed is a mess and how Facebook is "declining." I'm sorry to tell you this, but it's you and the people you are friends with that are the problem. Not Facebook (all of their metrics and revenues are up). Try being friends with more interesting people (or at least mute the bad ones).

Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells targeted ads.

Facebook doesn't sell user data (it sells targeted ads, advertisers don't get access to the data).

It was the NWS in this case who was playing up the fear. The useual suspect, The Weather Channel, is the only one who got it right.

>I wonder how long until the cycle comes full circle, and Youtubers are co-opted as subtle spinmakers for political ends. I can imagine a future where politicians are elected on the basis of a lulzy hashtag, and that scares me way more than what we have now.

This is how Barack Obama got elected in 2008 and 2012 #hopeandchange

>You don't become WalMart/Facebook/Twitter by treating your employees well.

Today's tech company employees are some of the most pampered in history. The list of perks Facebook and Twitter offer is huge (http://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/Facebook-US-Benefits-EI_IE...). Comparing them to WalMart is ridiculous.