Earnings call clearly says ad impressions decreased 17%, but price to advertise has doubled.

Nope. Try again. They're making higher CPCs and CPMs.

To be fair, those figures have been disputed and also called outright fraudulent by a number of parties.

An advertiser recently had an $800,000 invoice struck off because he threatened to sue Facebook. They decided just to let it slide instead of have the public debate.

As with Skype, I wait for the day when another Facebook competitor becomes ubiquitous enough to warrant switching. I am waiting for pretty much anything, so long as it has the market share with friends and family.

Well, the most obvious candidate was recently acquired by Facebook, so it might be a few more years.

> We tip barbers and coat checkers along with waiters, but not doctors, flight attendants

You don't tip people who already get paid really well. I guarantee that you would tip your doctor a lot if doctors usually only made $8/hour.

It doesn't matter how much given person earns, I have no idea I don't see his/hers pay slip. You pay for the service if it is good you can pay more, if it is bad you would like to pay less (if at all).

Exactly. A lot of players have one great year, it's the ones with consistent careers that stick out.

Also, Zuckerberg's recent purchases seem more like defensive measures than investments. Seems more like Gates than Buffett.

This sounds kind of like the earned income tax credit, which is basically a reverse tax (if you don't make enough to pay taxes, you get a subsidy instead): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit

Expanding EITC substantially would be politically easier than attempting to do this, since it already exists and has bipartisan support (as opposed to raising the minimum wage). You need some sort of job for the EITC, though.

Kinda random, but I associate the word "popcorn" with time, because when I was a kid growing up in the Bay Area, we always dialed POP-CORN (767-2676) to get the current time. Probably just a coincidence?

Yeah, the story isn't quite as compelling when you put it that way. That first album would cost millions of dollars to release if they put it out today. The list of expensive samples (Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, etc.) on that album is totally out of control...

Oh, I don't know -- at least now new artists can (more easily) sample them, and continue making art under equally unclear legal status. One can always hope this will help push fair use to become broader, rather than narrower.

I've used Linode for the last 4 years, and prior to this week, I've only had 2-3 instances of downtime, usually only for a few minutes. This week, it's happened 3 times, which really sucks.

I've been using DigitalOcean for about a year, and I experience downtime with them (NYC1) about once or twice every month. But they're $5.

This sort of thing happens to every VPS provider at some point, and switching to DigitalOcean isn't going to make a huge difference in that respect.

I do wish Linode were a bit better about updating their status page. I don't like relying other peoples angry tweets to determine if it's Linode, or just me.

I've had no appreciable downtime on Digital Ocean, and have a network scattered around: NYC2, AMS1, SFO1, and now Singapore (whatever they call it). My app is low-RAM, low-CPU, but possibly high bandwidth and their stuff is ideal for that.

I'm in NYC1 and NYC2 and it seems like there is maintenance at least once a month, if not more. Luckily, my application is very fault-tolerant, but it is surprising how often they are emailing me about maintenance outages (however brief they may be).

I get those messages too but I have monitoring running and don't actually see detectable downtime. So I guess they're brief or very selective outages.

I've got a bunch of monitoring set up on my instances there, and while it does usually result in actual downtime, it's not too long.

Even still, the downtime is frequent enough to where it'd be a bad fit for anything too serious. If our platform at work were to go down for 10 minute periods every month, our inboxes would be full of "What's going on?!?!" emails in short order.

It may happen to other providers, but it happens to Linode almost weekly - and they just turn around the blame (and charges) on the customer.

Since Linode doesn't charge for any incoming transfer, can you clarify what you mean?

The entire Dallas Linode went down at the same time as flapmmo.com. I think we took it down playing too much.

Edit: It's not a coincidence, they really are on Linode in Dallas...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YkUAh7u...

You don't need a VPN to do this. You can just go to Southwest.com. I always check their website after I check Kayak because they don't list Southwest's flights.

Wasn't there supposed to be a new UI with this release? When you Google "firefox new ui", the headlines all point to 25 having that. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/05/mozilla-is-planning...

It is not yet ready. Expected for Fx 28 (but would not sign it with my blood). There is a UX Nightly with Australis (the name of the redesign) out there.

Really looking forward to it. Maybe it makes me sound superficial but that might be what finally makes me switch back from Chrome - the compactness of the Chrome UI is great. Firefox on OSX is really in need of a boost.

I don't know how well it works on a OS X, but I have been using the firefox-ux nightly build on Windows for awhile now. You can find them at [0]. It's been as stable for me as the other nightly builds tend to be, which is very stable, but do be aware that going this route can lead to running into bugs. I understand why these things take a long time to shake out, but it is massively disappointing to hear that the new UI won't be released until Firefox 28 or later!

[0] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/late...

I've been using UX Nightly on OS X as my primary personal browser for something like 6 months now and it has given me very little trouble.

It's worked well on Linux, too, but I haven't used it there as much.