I also agree - but then he said something potentially defamatory :-)
However, I think if an employee looks up Shay's details, they will first find his op-ed calling Zynga "evil". I guess if they are concerned about the OMGPOP tweet, then they will be REALLY worried about the op-ed!
People like him are held up to high standards because they have responsibilities and are paid accordingly. It's called leadership. Leaders watch what they say.
As for celebrities acting badly, this doesn't make it particularly admirable. I should point out that no F-bomb was used by the CEO in question - he merely showed a complete lack of class. There really was no upside. A lot of people wouldn't have known, or perhaps wouldn't have cared, that Shay didn't join the new company.
I'd suggest that the OMGPOP CEO be very careful about what he says. Saying someone was the "weakest link" in a team with no backup might lead to defamation proceedings.
Simple "solution" - delete her Facebook profile and tell them that's what she's done.
Surely there is a law that's already on the books that prevents coersion of person details? Under the U.S. Constitution, the government must get a search warrant. I don't see how this is any different - this is the government using coersion to gain access to your private life. I think that a good lawyer could take this to the Federal Court to challenge the constitutionality of the matter.
Funny, I don't believe that she is being prosecuted of a crime. The ones asking her for the password is the Education Board, who have no legal recourse but to demand the password.
If this was a prosecutor, they would file a subpoena to Facebook via the court system.
It's interesting to see this occuring. Both of these firms are going to get hurt by this, or worse both will go bankrupt. Even if one firm survives, when they raise their prices, who's to say that their customers won't go to another of the numerous pizza places that are nearby?
I think it's a real lesson for startups - don't let your pride and pig-headedness rule your head, or else that will be the end of your company!
Where I live petrol stations make relatively little profit on fuel sales, the bulk of their profit comes from "also bought" items - milk, newspapers, ... , they're essentially high markup mini malls.
The two advantages to cheap cheap pizza are firstly in can get the crowds in and secure the sales of "also bought" items with better profit margins, further it leeches the crowd away from the competitor.
I was witness to a price war in geophysical surveying, over a decade in which fuel and manpower costs rose and inflation occurred the per line/km cost of flying aircraft with state of the instrumentation onboard dropped from $17 to $7 and effectively eliminating any profit in taking on million+ dollar survey jobs with risks.
Why the hell would the companies do that?
I would hazard a guess that the owners, being part of a much larger business that profited from resource extraction, weighed the benefits of having lead information on deposits potentially worth billions over the drawbacks of having losses of several tens of thousands.
I disagree. I've met a LOT of developers who believe they know more than the customer, the QA team, the UX team and the DBAs. And they are, most often, wrong.
I think it takes a special sort of programmer to run a project to be honest. They are out there, but they are hard to find!
It's a great idea, and actually slashdot is already doing this on their front page. However, there are some problems:
1. If I want to find a particular item within the first "page" of results, but I've scrolled down 10 pages of results, find that item becomes pretty tricky!
2. Let's say I have a user who scrolls down 1000 pages. What does this to the browser? I'd imagine it grinds to a halt...
The only solution would be to have a load page for the previous results. Here again, the issue I highlighted in point 1 becomes more emphasized. Especially if the search results change while it reloads (though you might keep the results for the user's session - but this sounds like a scaling issue).
One clarification: I didn't choose the title of this article and I am not confirming or denying any sum of how much the Zynga/OMGPOP buyout was for - I honestly was not privy to what that amount was, and I don't know anything more than the public information on that point.
Awesome technique. The fastest function call is the one that doesn’t happen. When you have a monotonically increasing counter, like movie view counts or profile view counts, you could do a transaction every update. Or you could do a transaction every once in awhile and update by a random amount and as long as it changes from odd to even people would probably believe it’s real. Know how to fake data."
So all those people who buy views are kinda screwed now :-) I suspect this is a bad example. I HOPE this is a bad example, if only for the KONY2012 campaign :P
No no, the correct amount of views will be recorded for a specific video, it's just that each webserver doesn't know the exact number all the time. You make each webserver fetch the correct value perhaps every hour, and fake it inbetween. You'll get an ok approximation, users can't tell the difference, and you don't have to fetch the actual number every single pageview.
