With a week’s notice, and no way to back everything up. This is just unacceptable. You don’t do this kind of thing to your users. You could pay one of your engineers spend a day building an export tool, which in the long run costs you nothing, and buys you immense social capital. When a service is already taking away functionality (users hate this) why make it worse?
via Andy Baio.
The two leading teams BellKor in BigChaos and Pragmatic Theory combined their talents to push over the 10% finish line. $1 million split 7 ways still sounds pretty damn good. Netflix also allows the winners to sell their algorithms to anyone else they like.
As Shawn Medero points out, the other teams have 30 days in which to submit their solutions, as well.
In what can only be described as a historical reenactment of a Street Fighter bonus stage.
Given their size, It is simply impossible that someone at Microsoft didn’t know about this. The only question is how deep into the process were they, and how many people were afraid to speak or were told to sit down and shut up.
Hey. What're you doing all the way down here? You get lost? Just looking around? Cool. I like you.