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For some reason I initially read the title as "Google ICO" and damn near blew my mind.

What kind of counter point is that?

If Apple has top tier talent, why do they ship an OS with a huge security vulnerability? With a map framework that has memory leaks? With a messaging app that messes up the order of messages?

If Google has top tier talent, why did they create an OS that allowed a third party developer to siphon calls, contacts and messages?

If this is your argument, then no company has top talent.

You have a valid point. Top talent existed in places like Silicon Graphics, Yahoo, etc. I guess you're right, the top probably got off the sinking ship long before the rest of the crew realized what was happening.

However, I still think this event is not "bad" enough for the crew to start fleeing. This is a bump in the road. People may hate Facebook but people sure do love Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. Facebook has a pretty strong moat (for now at least).

>Less top talent will want to be associated with facebook

How certain is this? Whether you like what Facebook does or not, you can't deny their engineering talent is top tier. I don't even use Facebook but I'd still want to work there just to work with the people there and the environment. Companies like Facebook and Google are pretty engineer friendly, more so than other companies. I don't think this event will be the tipping point for top talent to leave Facebook.

Thanks for the videos, it's always a pleasure watching good engineers work. A lot to learn.

As a side note, can you share your Terminal color scheme? It's really nice

Of course CS fundamentals are important, I would say they build a strong foundation. However, focusing on specific technologies (mobile, CV, ML, AI, etc.) yields betters results.

I agree. They just recently entered Canada (and it seems only one province), so of course they are going to have bigger revenue growth than Uber as they enter new markets.

A stretch: is Lyft going to use these metrics to go public before Uber to hype itself up?

Working hard certainly doesn't guarantee success, however it defiantly makes you luckier and exposes you to more opportunity. I like Kevin Systrom summed it up (not word for word):

Everyone gets lucky at least once a week. You might find a dollar on the ground, you might meet someone, be somewhere, whatever. What sets you up for success is:

1. Are you alert enough to know you're getting lucky?

2. Are you talented enough to run with it once you get lucky?

3. Are you resilient enough to stick with it once it gets hard?

I've had Spotify before and switched to Apple Music because of the student pricing. When I had Spotify, I would discover new music and new artists all the time. Since getting Apple Music, I really haven't discovered anyone new.

Although I've graduated, Apple seems to think I'm still in school and is still only charging me $5/month. The moment that ends, I'm switching to Spotify. Also, the Apple Music app on iOS is horrible. Spotify's app is so much better.

I also prefer GCP over AWS. GCP has better documentation, better UI and UX, better console and just overall more friendly.

I want to believe this was something extraterrestrial so bad. The sad part is even if they find the answer, we won't ever know.

> Either they have something that is real and extremely convincing to investors that they have been able to keep very secret

Hate to be that guy, but wasn't Clinkle the last top-secret-many-vc-much-money startup that went bust before the product was even released?

Ah man. I'm in Canada too and I wanted to incorporate for the sole reason of getting a Apple Developer account as a company instead of having my name. This would make my "startup" seem more legit. I guess even if an accountant doesn't want to bother with the headache of paperwork and taxes, I shouldn't either.

I'll just get a regular developer membership instead.