OT: Minecraft death by GC

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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…