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So he worked at MSFT till ~2011 (before they became open source friendly), and joined Netflix ~2011 (when they announced Qwikster [1]) and joined Facebook just a short while after …

Although, the situation will start to unravel very fast for all these companies if people start aggregating the house address, telephone number, social network handles, names of re…

>> if it’s just resentment. Ah, there it comes. Having been around lots of employees of one of the tech giants, I think the cult mentality is actually very strong. You can observe …

Apparently FB hyper-targeted Google employees with ads based on the profile these employees had happily volunteered when creating their FB profile. (Wish I had a reference link). A…

I would certainly like Facebook the company to completely fail, but the WagesforFacebook website is probably the most idiotic thing I have seen in a long time. It is like turning i…

Why does everyone talk about increasing fines? Wouldn't it be a far more effective deterrent to charge some FB exec team for breaking some law (haven't they already done that in th…

Well, its certainly much easier to upvote than to write a comment - you don't have to actually justify your upvote nor will the words be scrutinized. If you feel happy with MSFT pr…

Well, unlike other lowly developers, FB engineers know exactly what is and isn't the right kind of mistake to make in pursuit of a company's vision. Someone who works at FB even ca…

>>I'm now starting a software company. So are you going to a) hire the best developer you know and pay them whatever they ask, or b) hire the best developer who falls within your b…

Suppose we reverse that sentiment a little bit: I would never friend someone again who knowingly manipulated me to suit their employer and ultimately themselves. Which, once you re…

Since FB has gone out of their way to weaponize "friendship", my suggestion to everyone who actually likes to have some standards in their life and don't like to be manipulated lik…

"If you define winning solely as “who has the greater growth”, you’ve already lost. If you dismiss the standard of living enjoyed in Europe – one without medical bankruptcies, crus…

That's a somewhat odd thing to say. StackOverflow would be better off not leaving dated topics for reference (as you can see when someone leaves a comment about how they wish the h…

>> AFAIK we sell it to them That implies there are other buyers who are happy to pay money to take it, doesn't it? That doesn't seem to be happening though: https://qz.com/117151/u…

>> I managed niche newsletters with up to 35.000 subscribers in the past, built by the company I was freelancing for. >> 100.000 views. Again, So what? A column I wrote last month …

It is the same filter bubble that leads an employee to triumphantly proclaim "Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes." https://…

Even then, you could have regulatory capture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture Speaking of regulatory capture, I think that's really what happened and why Facebook …

>> a. Do you really think they would raise suspicion by deleting all old posts or just silently delete specific posts? How? By asking Mark Z to spend the time doing it? Or to have …

I think of them as the trust fund babies among the tech giants. A lot of people who have actually worked on both Azure and AWS/Google Cloud remark that Azure is awful in comparison…

Oh, this is the thread which is reserved for everyone who left one year ago from Amazon. If you left two years ago, you are supposed to comment in a different thread. That's just h…

Isn't that because we haven't yet figured out how to actually get them to do complex stuff? If you could actually have a bot which could just go out and shovel snow perfectly, woul…

Big tech has nothing to fear at all. Europe is waging an all out war on companies/entrepreneurship of every size. Big tech will probably face massive losses. On the other hand, a b…

Or it could also be that people who code these algorithms are not quite skilled enough to develop them in the first place? "If it is too big to fail, it is probably too big to exis…

>> The only thing I know is that I'd probably have done the same, as I reckon most would have. Nothing wrong with that. But then he shouldn't have written blog posts about how What…

So you added to the demand for this otherwise mediocre product (education), and then wonder why the product quality isn't better? I think it is just supply-demand economics.