Facebook moved from subversion to git around 2008. Some of their teams then switched to mercurial around 2014 (I could be wrong by a couple years here or there). By 2014, git was already the main tool everyone was using —- no amount of backing by a single company would have tilted the scales.

It’s been easier to build a company, hire people, and sell products in USA. In Europe, you have to deal with many languages and many legal frameworks. You might also have to tailor your product to each region’s culture, which adds a barrier.

If you are comparing across currencies you have to take each currencies expected inflation rate into account.

W̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶t̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶n̶i̶o̶n̶s̶h̶i̶p̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶a̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ We see potential uses in ads is where this is probably going...

And (oct)ober was the 8th month of the year, (nov)ember the ninth, (dec)ember the tenth!

Weird parenthesization. The latin numbers are septem, octo, novem, decem for 7, 8, 9, 10. And then they all have a -ber suffix.

The three letter prefixes show up in English (eg oct in octal, dec in decimal, etc.).

The prefix in "decimal" is "decim", like you'd expect given that the root is "decem". There is no "dec-" prefix.

(You do see "deca" used as a prefix, "a" included, but that doesn't come from Latin.)

You are right. I should have written: (septem)ber was the 7th month of the year, (octo)ber was the 8th, (novem)ber the ninth, and (decem)ber the tenth!

Don't forget (sep)tember being the 7th month

Because javascript programmers are cheaper/easier/whatever to hire? So everything becomes web-centric. (I'm hoping for this comment to be sarcastic but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out not to be)

Don't say that, you might hurt the JS devs feelings

One of my favorite kids music toy is a mini piano where you have to replay one among 5-6 melodies (each melody is 5-10 notes that you have to memorize by ear — no lights involved) to unlock a little happy sound. This toy managed to keep both, dad and kid busy for a while.

A zombie comment? How appropriate…

There's a Tom Scott music about a musical road in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef93WmlEho0

If you have the time, what Bret Victor’s talk Inventing on Principal. The talk covers feedback loops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

YES that is one of the all-time most inspiring talks I've ever seen. DX is so important. I got a taste for this kind of thing when I first encountered LiveReload (circa 2012?) and radically upgraded my and my team's webdev workflows.