So basically $100k for some teens to build a bunch of RoR CRUD sites.
And
""Our world needs more breakthrough technologies,” said Thiel. "From Facebook to SpaceX to Halcyon Molecular, some of the world's most transformational technologies were created by people who stopped out of school because they had ideas that couldn't wait until graduation. "
Don't know about the other companies beside Facebook, but it seems that Facebook doesn't belong on that list of "breakthrough technologies"
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So basically $100k for some teens to build a bunch of RoR CRUD sites.
And ""Our world needs more breakthrough technologies,” said Thiel. "From Facebook to SpaceX to Halcyon Molecular, some of the world's most transformational technologies were created by people who stopped out of school because they had ideas that couldn't wait until graduation. "
Don't know about the other companies beside Facebook, but it seems that Facebook doesn't belong on that list of "breakthrough technologies"
Facebook has some very interesting open source projects: http://github.com/facebook
Particularly interesting to me is their static analysis tool for PHP written in OCaml.
Facebook doesn't have the same optics as Google (a friend list/profile seems much easier than search), but things like Haystack are pretty impressive.