Zuckerberg's Side of 'The Social Network'

alkasem sent in a video clip where Mark Zuckerberg, speaking at Y-Combinator, tells his side of The Social Network. He says [the movie-makers] "can't wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things." I did really like that a monologue describing Zuckerberg building his first website was shockingly technically accurate — they mention tools, tasks and languages, and show screenshots that were all more or less exactly how we were doing things back then.

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Re:Zuckerberg is so full of shit.

[Gadget_Guy]

You must be new here..... You post a summary on Slashdot, you get 30 more biased sources within 30 min.

The worst part is that it is 30 biased and uninformed sources. At least Zuckerberg knows whether what he is saying is the truth or not. All the people here who post definitively that he was only in it to make money are just giving their gut feeling and they cannot possibly be basing it on fact. There is a 50% chance that they might be right, but they really can't say for sure.

It doesn't stop them from being modded as Insightful though.

Privacy and openness are incompatible.

[mosb1000]

This has always bothered me about the Slashdot crowd. You can't have both openness and privacy.

Someone will now come out and say "I want personal privacy, but openness from government and business." The distinction is false. Governments and businesses are made up of people who often want the same kind of privacy as other people.

Someone else will say that the difference is that powerful CEOs and government bureaucrats (and celebrities) need to be accountable while the ordinary man can keep his privacy. This also is false. The only true power anyone has is the ability to do work with their own hands, everything else is people trading responsibility and negotiating benefits. That means government officials need to trust ordinary people as much as ordinary people to need trust them for the system to work.

But in reality there is almost no trust, so the ordinary man demands privacy for himself and openness from the government, and the politicians and bureaucrats and CEOs do the same.

The Slashdot crowd is very much like a bunch of voyeurs. They like to watch a woman undress, but at the same time they want to remain completely unseen.

Re:I still can't understand how this all came to p

[MichaelKristopeit 62]

why do you continue to post using my given name?

why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

present yourself to me; admit what you've done, then i will kill you.