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Giving analogies mean 2 things: Either the receiving person is stupid or the one giving the analogy is bad at expressing his ideas.

I am not vouching for MS nor Google. I don't take sides. All what I am interested in is to know wether the examples given about google were valid or not.

So what? The most important is the content. Did they give wrong examples about Google? This is similar to when giving Coca-Cola as an example of how bad soda drinks are. It does not mean that Pepsi is good.

Too much space between "windows 8" and the actual window.

You better have stronger reasons than those presented in the article to doom Wikipedia to be a "failure"

The problems stated by the author are valid however they are solvable. Definitely, Wikipedia must have a scoring system to allow editors with high points to have more credibility than those with lower points, also a system to eliminate the trouble makers.

That's assuming the traffic is only 140 characters per tweet. What about html/TCPIP overhead, images, clicking links. I guess you need a LightTwitter application.

Those questions are valid if someone is trying to build the next Facebook. However, I think a person should work on important problems (not necessary hard, but important). And most importantly to like your work to reach a flow state.

I don't mean he got lucky. But as a programmer, I believe that there are far more success stories to learn from than that of facebook.

Seeing Facebook or Mark Zukerberg to be at the top of the success spectrum is really disturbing, much like when most business students see Donald Trump as a smart businessman.

I sucked.

I don't like the fact that people either love Microsoft or don't. The same applies to Google and Apple. As developers, we should always objectively question all big companies and give them credit when they deserve it. I, for instance, hate Microsoft for not living up to its potentials. I don't hate because it sells its software, but because, it creates a vendor-lock set of software, preventing integration of third party tools and making their clients completely dependent on them.

Very nice interview. Although, I strongly oppose the style of interview questions he is vouching for when recruiting new employees at Facebook. I am a PhD student. I focus on parallel computing. I was interviewed by a company in Seattle. The interviewer asked me to write a function to convert from Decimal to Roman numbers. This was ridiculous. Not even once during the interview I was asked about my past experience or my research.