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> Why do so many tech companies seem to be releasing “secret sauce” for free lately? Is it really their "special sauce" though? Do these types of releases actu
by throw0101a 4y ago
> Why do so many tech companies seem to be releasing “secret sauce” for free lately?
Is it really their "special sauce" though? Do these types of releases actually give away how these companies make money?
In this particular case, telling the world how to get to nanosecond levels of timekeeping doesn't really help any competitors take away Metabook's revenues or profits.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoOTOH if there turns out to be some other way of making money on nanosecond timekeeping, then keeping it secret will help them get into that market before competitors can.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoThis is just spending "potential money" for engineering talent advertisements.
- eastbound 4y agoUnless they’re playing 4-D chess and the goal is to make competitors lose time implementing CAP theorem databases, nanosecond precision and React, while they’re pulling ahead.
- benlivengood 4y agoHow FB and Google make money isn't secret either. They have a lot of people looking at their web pages and apps, they record a lot of prior interactions with the ads these people see, they train giant models in near-realtime to predict ad quality, serve the ads that maximize expected profits in an ad auction, and record the subsequent clicks, views, and attributed conversions to convince advertisers to keep spending.