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What a $347B conglomerate holding company's web site looks like
- n00b101 10y agoNow check what the website prominently linked to looks like: WWW.GEICO.COM The insurance industry is currently in a fever pitch over "Digital Business," "IoT," "Wearables," "Disruption," "Millennials," "Big Data," "Social Media," "FinTech/Insurtech startups" ... Executives in blue suits, who in better times would have prided themselves in not knowing how to type, are falling over themselves trying to eek out 1% organic growth by trying to understand this whole Internet thing that's been all the rage lately.
- sker 10y agoThat's how you act when you have nothing to prove. I like that they treat 'web' like an acronym.
- zintagon 10y agoIt might be some kind of play on Warren E. Buffett.
- sshykes 10y agoNot that surprising considering it doesn't really matter how outdated their website looks. Stocks will still allow themselves to be bought by BSHW. How did this make it to the front page? grin
- gk1 10y agoSee also: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ One thing I've noticed over the years is that a pretty design has very little correlation with the size, success, or market share of a company.
- robzyb 10y agoDefinitely need to mention: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
- danjayh 10y agoThe original is better. Can't stand websites that take up 1/3 of my monitor. If I wanted it that narrow, I'd resize my browser.
- wtf_is_frp 10y agoNow we need a muchbettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
- hyperbovine 10y agoLoads instantly, looks fine on mobile, the thing(s) you are probably interested in are linked right from the front page. As usual, Buffet is onto something here.
- walrus01 10y agoLooks fine in Lynx, too! http://imgur.com/yAEimmZ http://imgur.com/yAEimmZ
- dedalus 10y agoThe best part is that the home page is 6KB or 4 Internet Packets :-) The median webpage size is in the order or some 2MB
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- godzillabrennus 10y agoThe man lives in a house he bought decades ago. Did anyone expect he would be going bananas over the latest web trends?
- sengork 10y agoUnfortunately it does not pass the W3C Validator: https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkshirehathaway.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkshir...
- nitsujin 10y agoI'm sure Buffet has sleepless nights over this.
- taneq 10y agoIt's the website equivalent of wearing socks and sandals to a Lamborghini dealership.
- wmeredith 10y agoIt's the website equivalent of driving by the Lamborghini dealership in your 10 year old paid off and perfectly maintained Toyota Camry.
- dj_doh 10y agoAha factors fizzle out quickly. What they have for a holding company is appropriate and error-free.
- hrayr 10y agoThis might explain it. From the site source code for http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/sharehold.html http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/sharehold.html <META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\html.dot">
- dang 10y agoI'm burying this submission despite the home team's love of plain-text websites, because its title is baity and the discussion is unsubstantive and unlikely to improve.
- tikhonj 10y agoAnother one I found amusing was the website of Jump Trading[1], an HFT firm. It's minimalist in a different way: there's very little content and, at first, I couldn't even find any links at all... [1]: http://www.jumptrading.com/ http://www.jumptrading.com/
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- manachar 10y agoWould they make more money with the latest Web 3.0 React SPA website that takes over your scroll wheel and loads megabytes of stocks photos showing happy rich people?
- crempp 10y agoDid no one read the legal disclaimer? "linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." I wonder what how the lawyer who wrote that expected people to navigate to the site.
- RaleyField 10y agoIn their mind at least the prohibition does not apply to some of their other web properties some of which my contain links to this site but do allow to be linked from other third-party websites?
- crempp 10y agoSo HN is in violation of their legal disclaimer. Take-down notice in 3... 2... 1...
- krapp 10y agoNo problem. I gave written permission on a napkin just now. It doesn't say the written permission has to be theirs.
- dwaltrip 10y agoThere is no way that would have any weight in court.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoI wish more websites took this approach, especially news and information sites, I'm tired of pullng terabytes of pointless js and images just to skim a bad article behind clickbait. Mind he takes a different approach behind the Berkshire Activewear link.
- datashovel 10y agoI wonder if they charge Geico for the ad space ;)
- thinkloop 10y agoAnd their ad network pierces all adblockers - best site ever built?
- tedhosmann 10y agoAlmost worse is the HBO site from just last year. They had hours of operation posted. https://web.archive.org/web/20140208060432/http://www.homeboxoffice.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140208060432/http://www.homebo...
- sdk77 10y agoLooks good. Simple, humble, to the point. It has a certain elegance that I like. It loads fast as well.
- xbmcuser 10y agoThe greatest thing for me is that it still has an ad