The proliferation of these so called "prophetic" articles coming out now amuses me greatly. Am I really alone in thinking FB was cancer from the get go?. Was Snowden and PRISM not enough? Why is this new CA crap even news? I feel like the signs and warnings have been there the entire time, finally mainstream outlets take it seriously and make an issue of it all, and therefore now it's a big deal. SMH
$FB closed at $21.50 on the day this article was posted and at $153.03 yesterday. The stock price at the time was being beaten down by concerns over whether the company would be able to adapt to a shift to mobile, and not any issues with how tactfully (or not) acquihire offers were being made.
Here is the thread on HN when the article originally appeared:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325231" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325231</a>
> The executive apologized and said he would take my feedback under consideration.<p>Wow software 'entrepreneurs' are really pathetic sometimes. This is not the normal cutthroat business that normally happens in the real world... So the Facebook executive apologised for giving OP a generous offer to buy their startup which Facebook doesn't even need anymore? Sounds like charity to me. OP is a spoiled brat in my opinion. Based on my experience, what should have happened is the executive should have laughed at him all the way to the door for being so foolish/arrogant.<p>Now you understand why Facebook is full of entitled jerks... They acquihired them.
Unrelated to the article content, but what ever happened to Dalton Caldwell? I was very into the Dustin Curtis/svbtle hype in 2009-2013, and remember reading Dalton's articles from way back when. Is he blogging elsewhere now or has he dropped off?