I agree. You can tell how confident they are in their blockchain technology that the only nodes they allow on the NEO network are operated by the company. Decentralized trust is supposed to be the single selling point of a blockchain. If we give that up, we might as well make a REST API for a SQL database and claim that it's the fastest blockchain in the world.
I work at Facebook and had the chance to use Relay Modern for an upcoming product. Was really happy with the performance and collocation of data and view just amazing. Love it :) BTW I realized where Relay's logo came from by chance while fiddling around with PowerPoint's new Morph transitions... https://gfycat.com/EnviousBothFinch
I wrote the blog post. It turns out writing a blog post works better than talking to the bank beyond simple catharsis. Just got a call from someone from Bank of America's social media team who credited the money back to my account. Thanks for all the suggestions here!
Is it really business sense or just being lucky to IPO in a huge bubble?
Did Broadcast.com really create value for the economy that the employees were rewarded for, or were they just on the lucky end of a huge unsustainable wealth transfer from retail investors to startup founders?
It seems like it shows all the fonts found in the CSS. A font like Arial might seem very popular but in reality not show up for most people because it's often the second or third choice.
Actually CS comprises of around 15% of undergrads and commands a dominating influence over the rest of the school. http://stanfordvisualized.soraven.com/
Aaron was smart to recognize that Dropbox had the first-mover brand recognition among consumers that is hard to overcome and therefore deliberately chose to focus on enterprise deals. This seems to be paying off for Box. For example, as a Stanford student, we all get 30 GB of free Box space associated with our .edu addresses.
However, I wouldn't write off Dropbox. The flipside of this is that no one at Stanford actually use the Box space that the university has seen fit to pay for. Consumer mindshare is a powerful tool. Think of how a few years ago people were saying that the iPhone would never be allowed in the corporate world because it was not designed for the enterprise.
When it comes to enterprise file-syncing, I see Box as a top-down approach and Dropbox as a bottom-up approach. Box has the lead now but it's a perilous one.
I like how there are two comments on the article right now:
Comment 1: "This has to be the stupidest article just to bash Apple which this author continually does. I only read him to laugh at his misguided comments."
Comment 2: "Sam Mattera sounds like a gigantic Apple troll. Android is 1000x times better looking and more useful than the Fisher Price looking Apple iOS."
This is ridiculous. If he had said that the murderer was a male student, would you be complaining about sexism? Identifying someone's race is not racism. He didn't imply anything about Greeks in general.