Twenty-six years ago today, #Google was incorporated in Menlo Park, CA. Only a few months later, Excite CEO George Bell turned down an offer to buy the company for $750k. Alphabet, Inc. (Google's parent company) is now valued at over $2T.

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#software #business #investment

#UI: we designed our windows to look just like our doors for a sleek, modern, consistent design

#UX: https://buff.ly/3YPzXAw

If it's not obvious how you should interact with some interface, it's not your fault -- it's bad #design.

https://buff.ly/2LN79kj

When building #distributedsystems, assume

1. The #network is unreliable
2. Latency != 0
3. Bandwidth != ∞
4. The network is insecure
5. Network topologies change
6. Multiple administrators exist
7. Transport cost != 0
8. The network is heterogeneous

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#software #development