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9y ago
Red bricks and other varieties are kiln fired, not unlike ceramics and glass. Concrete cinder blocks are cured in a mold, as with all concrete. Adobe is often sun-baked in desert climates, but it's not as practical in other climates. C
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9y ago
Having one third of the earth’s population touch your site at least once won’t matter if you do nothing particularly useful. Facebook does almost nothing useful. It’s kind irritating to actually try to do anything with the user interface, s
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9y ago
Hmmm, not quite. See, that’s the part about the boredom cure I mentioned. People really are that bored. People’s lives are frequently very lackluster and uneventful. This is plainly obvious, because whenever someone delightfully ordinary (y
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9y ago
Except Facebook isn’t cigarettes, dude. No matter how much you want it to be cigarettes, it just isn’t. Facebook is a boredom cure at best, and at times it can be a version of the cold, hard, cringey truth. You might complain that Facebook
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9y ago
And even if anyone ever considers it " complete ," the reality is, that it's just going to be white wash and bullshit. Why waste the fucking money. Quit being sentimental. Just trash Facebook and pivot (lol pivot). Be a real
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9y ago
I'd imagine that any company building its own hardware will continue to develop at least some code in C++ for another 25 years.