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tptacek on April 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook acquires Instagram

Having Turing, Einstein, Dijkstra and Knuth on your team seems like the kiss of death.

j_baker on April 9, 2012 [–]

If your goal is to succeed in the real world, of course it is. If your goal is to get Google to beg you to pay inappropriately large amounts of money to acquire you, it's the best idea ever.

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