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"The study’s methodology is somewhat questionable, since it counts as French-speakers all the inhabitants of countries where French is an official language, which probably won’t be the case. And almost certainly, as a second language, English will remain the lingua franca"

Sounds like the study measures colonial vestiges and not real world usage.

Doesn't almost every service leak users at sign up? There are ways around it but I don't think they've very common.

Same. Flux is really simple and most of the implementations just remove some boilerplate and add some conventions. Given more time there might be a framework that has everything that I want, informed by comprehensive, mature, real-world use cases, but I haven't yet seen anything compelling enough in the dozen or so libraries I've looked at. I've found a lot of value in having granular control so I can explore different conventions and optimizations.

> Haskell has what it calls types

I think you mean typeclasses?

One of the things that always bothered me about interfaces was the inability to define a default implementation, especially when developing UIs. A proper mixin system (like what's used by React's components) has solved this particular problem for me.

LiveScript fixes scoping and adds a ton of other nice features including let and const variable declaration keywords.

The only gripe I share is scoping, and that's fixed in LiveScript. I've started writing LiveScript in a fairly explicit style - for example I use parentheses where they improve readability and I always use curly braces for object literals. Qualitatively I think it's increased the readability of my code way beyond JavaScript. It's nice to have curly braces carry specific meaning instead of being littered all over the place.

It's far from precise but I'd maintain it's useful to illustrate that if Oculus is a success, Facebook made a great buy.

I qualified it as 0.666x projected sales (intentionally not rounded >:), so yeah that 10M was a projected figure, which unfortunately I can't find the source for. By the end of 2015 I think Oculus will look like a steal, unless the goodwill is shot.

No, revenue. For example Google's P/E (the equivalent profit ratio) is currently 31.4, and that's not including the control premium.

A premium? Figures I saw were 10M units at $300. That's 0.666x projected sales, when 2-3x is the norm for mature companies.

I'm curious how the OP found his startup partner(s) and what the irreconcilable differences were.