I am inordinately proud of the fact that I discovered neal stephenson all by myself -- and I read Cryptonomicon at one of those formative ages where it bakes itself into your head at a pretty deep level.
Judging by their business decisions, I have come to believe that a bunch of other would-be Secret Admirers work at some but not all tech companies, and this does inform my choice of services. I bet you $5 there were Tombstone jokes at Apple during the san bernadino fiasco.
edit: and people like Moxie are doing their very best John Cantrell impersonations and I am extremely grateful for this.
> Some things just don't make sense to me. Why are the default settings for something like Facebook public? Why not friends by default?
They are not, AFAIK. I mean, Facebook keeps nagging me to make my posts private every other week, even though I explicitly want to post publicly.
Facebook was a much nicer place back when they actually were public-by-default. It felt more social. Now it's just a crossover between Twitter and a rolodex.
Some things just don't make sense to me. Why are the default settings for something like Facebook public? Why not friends by default?