On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 10:15:45 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
I'll just put this right here.
https://github.com/rikkimax/Dobol
Haha! :-D Cool, or should I say Dool? «Dobol, enjoy the future of
the past!»
Banks are having trouble finding Cobol programmers. I'm
considering learning both Cobol and old hierarchical databases.
:^] Actually, that was a joke, but when I come to think about it
it actually makes a lot of sense… Hm.
On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 09:56:51 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
Not quite sure if you mean actual deals (tho 2 mins of googling
confirm my suspicion that you are joking ;) but I certainly
wasn't:
Yeah, but considering the insane "big is better" valuations we
see these days, I thought the business people migh as well use
this simple formula:
offer = (last big valuation)*2 ==> 1B, 2B, 4B, 8B, 16B, 32B, 64B.
With FB I suspect you mean WatsApp for 22B?
Actually I thought about the valuation of FB at 30B, but the
WhatsApp purchase is insane! And here I thought SUNs purchase of
MySQL for 1B was a bad investment???!??!
In perspective, if FB had tried to sell 19B worth of stock, then
the prices would have gone down real fast… It is Monopoly money…
:-/
Anyhow, youngsters aren't loyal to technology, only old people
are. And they go to the "new and cool places". So these things
will shift over time. I guess that is why FB is trying to be cool
by investing in stuff like 3D headgear and chats…
