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Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
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Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#12I despise posts like these. I hate being so negative about it, but it doesn't say anything. "Facebook has smart employees. Facebook wants you to learn new things. Facebook has impact." None of it is novel or interesting. I wish there were more of a culture of insider writing while the events were going on. When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it, I'd love to see a blog post about "Yeah, we pushed Questio…
At least he didn't mention how great the food was. That's a step up from every "I love being at Google" post ever.
Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#13I despise posts like these. I hate being so negative about it, but it doesn't say anything. "Facebook has smart employees. Facebook wants you to learn new things. Facebook has impact." None of it is novel or interesting. I wish there were more of a culture of insider writing while the events were going on. When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it, I'd love to see a blog post about "Yeah, we pushed Questio…
I'm not sure what this means: "When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it"
We didn't ship and then retract. We just started with an extremely small seed community and are rolling it out very slowly over time.
Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#14I despise posts like these. I hate being so negative about it, but it doesn't say anything. "Facebook has smart employees. Facebook wants you to learn new things. Facebook has impact." None of it is novel or interesting. I wish there were more of a culture of insider writing while the events were going on. When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it, I'd love to see a blog post about "Yeah, we pushed Questio…
I'm not sure what this means: "When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it" We didn't ship and then retract. We just started with an extremely small seed community and are rolling it out very slowly over time.
I'm just referring towards my experience: I ran it for about a week, saw that the majority of it was broken or the caching was completely insane, and then I was dropped from Questions. I figured it was a botched launch. No disrespect intended; I just had no visibility on any of the background with it.
Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what this means: "When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it" We didn't ship and then retract. We just started with an extremely small seed community and are rolling it out very slowly over time.
I'm just referring towards my experience: I ran it for about a week, saw that the majority of it was broken or the caching was completely insane, and then I was dropped from Questions. I figured it was a botched launch. No disrespect intended; I just had no visibility on any of the background with it.
Where are you located?
Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what this means: "When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it" We didn't ship and then retract. We just started with an extremely small seed community and are rolling it out very slowly over time.
I'm just referring towards my experience: I ran it for about a week, saw that the majority of it was broken or the caching was completely insane, and then I was dropped from Questions. I figured it was a botched launch. No disrespect intended; I just had no visibility on any of the background with it.
@blakeross: SF. You can ping me as @holman over Twitter if you want to take this offline and not clutter up HN as much. ;)
Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#17I despise posts like these. I hate being so negative about it, but it doesn't say anything. "Facebook has smart employees. Facebook wants you to learn new things. Facebook has impact." None of it is novel or interesting. I wish there were more of a culture of insider writing while the events were going on. When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it, I'd love to see a blog post about "Yeah, we pushed Questio…
"Move fast and break things" is not the same ol'. I work at Facebook, and we really, really mean it, for better and for worse.
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#18The "break things" part of "move fast and break things" is something Google could learn a bit from. (Speaking as a Googler.) We're great at adding 9s of reliability, not as great at sacrificing reliability for progress. You can only move so fast when everything must work. This is the liability I guess of having a huge launch audience for even minor products.
I can't think of any Google product which is as frivolous as FB. Maybe buzz and wave (RIP).
People would not take down-time in gmail, analytics, calendar, search, maps, et al lightly.
Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what this means: "When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it" We didn't ship and then retract. We just started with an extremely small seed community and are rolling it out very slowly over time.
I'm just referring towards my experience: I ran it for about a week, saw that the majority of it was broken or the caching was completely insane, and then I was dropped from Questions. I figured it was a botched launch. No disrespect intended; I just had no visibility on any of the background with it.
This also happened to a friend of mine, and he thought Facebook pulled Questions until I showed him they were still up for me.
Re: Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook
#20The "break things" part of "move fast and break things" is something Google could learn a bit from. (Speaking as a Googler.) We're great at adding 9s of reliability, not as great at sacrificing reliability for progress. You can only move so fast when everything must work. This is the liability I guess of having a huge launch audience for even minor products.
I can't think of any Google product which is as frivolous as FB. Maybe buzz and wave (RIP). People would not take down-time in gmail, analytics, calendar, search, maps, et al lightly.
I work near the people that did goo.gl, and even though it has higher uptime and lower latency than any other url shortener, there's pressure on them to make it even faster and more reliable. We definitely have an institutional mentality that speed and reliability are the best features, and every other feature is secondary. (Not saying this is a bad thing, it just biases us towards certain types of products.)