Agreed, as a shareholder I'd also prefer to have a well rested CEO dedicated to just one company

Many employers have agreements prohibiting their employees from having other jobs. Most people can't work two full-time jobs productively.

I have a CS degree and an MBA and overall I feel that the CS degree provides more value. The MBA is helpful for some positions but only combined with my CS background. An MBA or business degree on it's own is not that helpful because the only set of skills you have is business, and nothing really tangible.

I wrote about this some time ago. It's a great way to build web applications after you sort out the little kinks and intricacies. Some tips can be found in this post: http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/05/why-and-how-you-should-writ...

So the $25B number is entirely made up then? There seems to be nothing in the article to justify this number.

One thing that was in the article is this...

"The real innovation Groupon brought to the table wasn't in advertising deals per se, it was their ability to profit off of closing the attribution loop in online-to-offline commerce."

To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, I'm not sure that "p" word means what he thinks it means.

If you have a high monthly revenue the 3.9% is pretty steep. The $60/month for paypal get's wiped out above $6k per month. It may be good for a small, low dollar value businesses, but as one commenter mentioned, net 60 days is BS.

There is no free lunch, payment processors get you one way or another.

If you're writing in JavaScript it's a nice candidate for self memoizing functions. Obviously this is only helpful if you're making numerous requests to the method, a single request still produces a series of recursive calls.

But the single request will still be faster. Try it.

Totally agree. I would also add that the long-term effect of doing more could have been really detrimental here. If they let users share tons of folders this would have made it much more difficult to work with a variety of platforms and devices. If you don't have to put in a feature, don't!

Absolutely agree with you. I'm not sure why this post got 200+ points. Enforced Association is perfect description and it's something that every company must be aware of. I try to get our team together once a month to go out for lunch but that's where it stops. Everyone likes each other and they spend time together at lunch when they want to, not when they're forced to.

For me lunch is a time to stop thinking about work and get out of the office.

If people don't like sitting together at lunch, all you do is force them to think about creative things to say rather than letting them rest their mind and come back to work more productive after lunch.

It's another one of those time where I don't agree with Joel.

We had a similar experience with failure every 3 months or so. We had a small portion of our services on Amazon and it was the main reason we moved it back to our own Servers. I really don't know how they can continue to offer a service with a failure rate as high as EBS. Amazon should be ashamed of themselves for having such a glaring gap in their otherwise strong collection of products.