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Also very easy that it uses phone number as ID, so when I started using whatsapp, I didn't need to ask all my contacts for their chat app ID. And at the time I started using it it was free, so there was a zero threshold.
Wout
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Never heard of it (WhatsApp that is, though I wish I'd never heard of Facebook too.)
For $16B, I guess they're buying the customer base (something like 150 million users I read), not the technology.
Which goes to show, all you geeks out there, it doesn't matter how cool your tech is, what matters is, can you sign up a few hundred million people to use it? That's what puts you on the radar nowadays.
Marc
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I don't know - I would imagine there is a fairly high overlap between the users on both.
TTFN - Kent
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Among people our age perhaps; but I've seen a number of reports recently that teenagers are anathematizing farsebook in favor of rivals like whatsapp. Young users fleeing to the next big thing is what broke myspace's back a number of years back. If farsebook buys the next big thing (and manages not to kill it) this move will keep them from descending into pathetic joke status over the next few years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So the title says $16 Billion, but the text of the article says $19 Billion. Fine, Fine! I'll take the $3 billion difference off their hands!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Java SE 8 and a final version of OpenJDK 8, with support for lambda expressions, are expected to be released on March 18, according to Oracle, which oversees the language and platform. Remember when Java got all the cool features first?
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The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in last summer’s comment ballot for the upcoming C++14 standard. For those tracking C++14 (and I thought Microsoft came up with bad product names)
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Imagine if you could go back and rebase your technical career. What pivotal moments would you change? "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
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Joint Linux Foundation/Dice report claims Linux expertise remains in strong demand for 2014, commanding top pay and perks Is it just me, or do these "Study of people using technology X say that technology X is really important" studies make no sense at all?
Bonus question: does that sentence make any sense at all?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bonus question: does that sentence make any sense at all?
Could you include some more "X"'s in it next time??  
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The team behind Guava, Dagger, Guice, Caliper and other projects on those projects in particular, or what their day-to-day jobs inside Google are really like, team or personal history, advice... you name it
The search for the weirdest and most useless question the team actually answered begins...now.
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The creator of the Android Visual Studio extension for C/C++ apps on how the extension came to be, why it does not support C#, and how it could help bridge the platform gap.
A collective *sigh* from all the C# coders.
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We believe Exceptionless can help the development community become more in-tune with their code by making those errors more transparent, trackable, and squashable. More importantly, we want to support developers building and shipping better code for their users. But of course your code never throws exceptions, does it?
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Quote: But of course your code never throws exceptions, does it?
Nope. I found the magical super-secret code that stops all exception throwing:
Catch {}
Works every time.
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He's a witch! Burn him! 
TTFN - Kent
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The new name had already been previewed, and the product is largely the same as its predecessor, SkyDrive. New features include auto uploads from Android, adaptive personal video streaming a la Netflix and better document collaboration tools that don’t require a Microsoft account. Doesn't look like the 100GB works if you already were signed up. Now taking bets on how long before they're sued on this name.
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One.com has been making threatnening noises[^]; but their lawyers don't appear to have pulled the trigger yet...
Canonical hasn't said anything public yet. (I assume this means they're waiting until they can open an office in East Texas before filing suit.) 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Zzzzz....
"How on earth does Microsoft continue to pour massive resources into building the same frigging synchronization platforms again and again? ... I'm so excited I might just die." -- Architecture astronauts take over, by Joel Spolsky[^]
This space intentionally left blank.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Architecture astronauts take over, by Joel Spolsky[^]
... also hard at work on the news item above this one.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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He sure likes hyperbole: "incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian grandiloquence; the boastfulness; the complete lack of reality"
But a pretty funny and accurate read.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Here I gaze into my crystal ball and pen some thoughts on what I think the PC - or, more accurately the post-PC PC - of 2025 will look like. "If man is still alive, if woman can survive"
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By 2025 large companies, especially those that have just moved off of XP in the last couple of years) will finally begin migrating to Windows 8 on the same box that they've been using 2013.
What the author, and everyone else, fails to recognize is that the market has at least three tiers: the trendy gadget techno look people that just want to stream entertainment all day, the middle manager that wants to look powerful with his lighter than air, transparent iAir, and the last tier that's got two types of people: those that actually get work done and need fast input (meaning a real tactile keyboard) and a large display, and those that make all these gadgets and software, what affectionately was called "engineering" in 2013 and in 2025 is called "agileering", those of us who actually need those quantum super-cooled fiberoptic megacore GPU's and 50 square feet (er, meters) of display surface with optical and gesture tracking.
Now, doesn't that sound a lot more realistic, and in about 10% of the words that that article used?
(And hopefully a lot more entertaining!)
Marc
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Even if you’ve only had just one professional interview in your life, then you’ve probably still been asked some version of this question. Do you remember how you answered? Did you say that you work too hard? That you have perfectionist tendencies? Or that you’re too passionate? Be honest. Mental note: "I have a tendency to maim interviewers using that question", is not the right answer
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Surely the best response to this man on a high horse is "I don't suffer fools gladly!"
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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"I just never say what I should in interviews and kick myself later."
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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