It remains me to this: http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/i/3/2/d/a/image.r...

Is Google Next?

Its 7 billion in content, not 7 billion in Netflix originals, big difference.

I tried to migrate from Firebird to Postgres once and I failed, it needs more administration than Firebird.

I've been using Facebook for years, awesome tool, I'm in contact with friends, relatives and parters, it is awesome.

That's all so great. But how does it relate to the article?

The echo chamber disenjoys dissonance.

I use FB to keep in touch with family and friends, and as a way for them to invite me to events. I avoid the "news" feed like the plague, and strongly prefer Imgur's User Submitted for a feed of "what's going on in the world today".

I think it's because the downvoters feel like it doesn't add anything to the discussion, because you don't really address the concerns in the article.

Perhaps your comment didn't add anything useful to the discussion other than a lightweight opinion?

However, HN downvotes do seem to be trending toward "I disagree" recently too, in my experience.

As if these constant digs at Facebook amount to deep nuance?

By all means, if you can't use a website without becoming addicted to it, disconnect.

But there's no need to damn everyone else with the "that's exactly what an addict would say" kafkatrap rhetoric that seems to be so popular every time the topic comes up.

It's of the same amount of value as the canned "delete facebook" comments we see in every thread on it (including the current top-ranked comment, which has zero value and is factually wrong).

Facebook isn't new anymore so it's not cool to like it. I also find it vastly more useful than other social media sites.

I find weird that Asp.NET Core 2.0 was announced before .NET Core 2.0

All within hours. Basically, they all shipped at the same time. Blog posts were manually published. There is no order implied.

I've created small projects in Lazarus and you are right in all points except in the small binary part, also I would add that it comes with db drivers for Postgrees, MySQL and Firebird SQL out of the box.

If you compare to the "modern" way of building cross-platform apps: Electron ... with its 100s of MBs, I'm definitely regarding Lazarus binaries as small :)

Electron is degenerate, not "modern". XUL was modern.

Depends on what you define as small but if you remove the GDB debugging information you can trim down your binaries by a huge amount. My last project was 3.4MB.

Back in the day I used to run the exe through and get them even smaller: https://upx.github.io/

UPX is misleading though since it needs more memory than the EXE itself.

I use Edge and looks like is blocking everything w/o problems.

For a great example of this, G+, millions wasted in a copy of Facebook that never worked.

FWIW, they did pose a competitive threat to Facebook, forcing FB to add features like choosing which groups of "friends" to show a particular post and letting people see public posts of people who aren't bidirectionally connected. If Facebook had refused to adapt at all, G+ might have grown more significant.

The google failure was aiming at the current facebook user that were committed instead of the 13+ demographic entering the social net without anchors.

That and hangout mobile sucked balls at the beginning and for quite a long time after

I don't know why they are modding you down, but is true, code formatting is subjetive and Google enginers do not hold universal truth.