As someone who used to work in government contracting, this comment is so freaking true.
The whole thing about contractors is so spot on. The only slight difference I would add is that the contractors will NOT hire the best talent, they will hire whoever they can to fill the position, for the cheapest price, so they can claim to have fulfilled their RFP.
Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.
The only site I know that died from instant user migration is Digg. Lots of sites died a slow death from users moving on to better platforms, but rarely does anything die from boycott that I know of.
The wide spectrum of the human experience never cease to amaze me. Reading the stories in this article just made that spectrum a little bit bigger. Just wild. I am too shocked to have any sort of moral opinion about it.
Yep. Google paid like $2 per download of Firefox. It cost like 5 cents a click, for the "download Firefox" keyword, on Google Ads to bring someone to my website. Profit.
I agree with you. If the shit I say in IM to my friends get published, it would look exactly like this. It doesn't mean I would ever do anything like that. It's just excited bragging. Some guys brag about women, money, physical accomplishments. Nerds like me brag about stupid computer tricks we can do...
The whole thing about contractors is so spot on. The only slight difference I would add is that the contractors will NOT hire the best talent, they will hire whoever they can to fill the position, for the cheapest price, so they can claim to have fulfilled their RFP.
It's a dead end.