Really? Wikipedia shows they raised over a billion from investors before IPO (including individual rounds of $800M and $300M.) Of the $800M, half went to cash out.
I'd agree though that at least technically, to deliver the core user product, this money simply wasn't needed. (It might have been needed for advertising or building up contracts, etc.)
Don't start on node. A dozen thousand files of dependencies because every function needs its own module containing at least 6 files. And using RequireJS, well it takes 30s+ to build this site even though it's not doing anything earth shattering. And that's before running uglify or any such minimizer. I don't get it.
In many cases it's not. In fact I've recently worked on several projects where the frontend is stupidly heavy for zero reason. Just sloppy or over engineered code.
I know the full extent of the capabilities - one is just a corporate website with no interactivity. It's just dumb. The previous version was just simple static HTML; but as part of the "responsive design overhaul" it turned into this behemoth that makes several dozen requests to open the homepage. Nuts.
That's not true. There are many websites today that have identical or less functionality than in the past, and they're just SLOW. So many sites I visit do an inane amount of work to load up a static site. And they scroll poorly, they feel laggy. There's no new functionality, except as far as the developer goes - they're now doing databinding on the client, loading content at runtime (vs sending back rendered HTML), etc.
Edit: I'd also add "on the web" continues to be an excuse for slow, unresponsive software. Even in ~96 or so, I remember folks getting excited. "Look at this online frog dissection thing!" ... It was crappier than what you could do with even a small download. But it was on the web so it was hot. Same thing now.
Really? Last I tried, it'd display a page at a time, leaving you to scroll around. Particularly terrible with 2 column layouts like those loved for papers.
It'd be FANTASTIC if the NSA used Amazon's private keys. It'd leak tons of information and cause a huge backlash. Amazon's CA would instantly be revoked. It'd cause a ton of damage to them. That might spur tech companies to spend even more on buying politicians, which is probably a good thing (or a lesser evil).
The CA system is not great. But state actors using a CA is sorta far-down on the list of issues because it is so detectable and provable. CAs take a lot of work to get going and burning a CA isn't something anyone would do lightly. (Well except incompetent ones, like CNNIC.)
No it's not. In order to establish a TLS connection, you'd have to do a revocation check. Can't perform that if you need a TLS connection to get the CRL.
As far as the certificate, I'm guessing there are many, many checks as to the authenticity of the key before it ships.
Plus, they'd have to use a cert from another CA, since theirs are not trusted yet. That's not elegant in a process that is used to start CAs.
Is it acceptable to flag such things? I only flag such articles because the discussion quality tends to be really low. There's little insight in the comments. While they may be important topics, and I'm sure some folks have interesting ideas, the results don't seem very useful.
I gave it to my 5 year old and she loved it. The best part was after a few sections, I wrote out simple "x + 5 = 7" type equations and she had no trouble figuring them out. I try to get them to understand the same for other things. A billion plus a million is easy, it is similar as an orange plus a pear.
It's so awesome to see their eyes open up at these things. My younger daughter has been going on for days about powers of two. She doesn't know how to multiply, but exponentiaton just tickles her. I showed her some of Vi Hart's videos, and now she's in love with hexaflexagons.
It's so wonderful to see the beauty of math, and moreso when a child is discovering it.
If someone has an idea or seed of a company, but is only aiming for a mid-high 8 figures as a reasonable exit, would YC consider funding them? Or must it be a shoot-the-moon endeavor? I've written a prototype in use at a large company, and recently found that Oracle acquired a less-performing competitor (yet in market, so not not bad!) product for $20M.
I'm working on my idea anyways, just wondering if YC and the like are a complete waste of time for me. I've got a verbal commit on $120K annual revenue already, but having seed money to focus full time to launch is appealing.
Right, well. I'll be very impressed if Rust manages to perform as slowly as the GC'd languages on real world, idiomatic code, with safeties on (not C# unsafe blocks, although the C# compiler and JIT require plenty of coercing even then). I tried with the CLR and found it very hard to get the things Rust/LLVM do. But I'm not that experienced so impressing me isn't too hard.