That's why it called dd: don't dare
It was pure gaming.
No advertisments, no marketing, no extra costs.
The only way to get better was to play more.
How can it not be fun?
Good ol' days, thank you VALVE.
The CEO short-term logic makes sense: Yahoo search = Lower cost = Higher profit margin = Happy shareholders = Happy CEO
But she forgot that: Yahoo search = Shit
And then it happened
For history fans:
LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by [two Israelis named] Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978... Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP.
Did you write this message from your own house?
So the "let's give our people nothing and expect them to land on the moon" attitude doesn't work after all, how surprising!
Wisely.
It's fun and games, but lately I've seen 2 colleagues eating from the office kitchen the leftovers of extra bread and cream cheese, instead of ordering. It's actually sad.
Doing business with Nazis because it's profitable. Nazis died, BMW regrets.
Doing business with fossil fuel because it's profitable. Earth dies, BMW regrets.
I see a pattern here
Threads owned by Zuck, which has both a "for-profit" and "unethical" mindset. In my opinion this mindset isn't fit for the fediverse in the place where it is now (people actually care about the community). Users will always come, we don't need papa Zuck for that. Healthy communities grow naturally, and I feel like the fediverse community is healthy enough.
I just read in Wikipedia that Valve is privately helded.
There must be something magical in the fact that they don't need to feed their shareholders with mountains of cash every quarter, and actually focus on their customers, as happened in this post.