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Re: Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

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Post by bobdole12345 » Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 2:51 AM UTC

arunv wrote: post #295

bobdole12345 wrote: post #269

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Smartest people? Their tech stack is a dated cargo-culting of Google, hell, their newest thing is just using kubernetes with a thin wrapper. Their AI platform is a also ran in pretty much every aspect. Where exactly are the smart people?

1. Judging how smart the people there are by their tech stack is like judging how much horsepower a car has based on how many miles it has. 2. Even humoring that assumption, you’re conveniently forgetting React, Hive (+Hbase, hipal), presto, rocksdb, Cassandra, graphql, oauth 2, open compute, phabricator, hhvm, buck, and that’s just the open source stuff.

Sorry, I stopped considering your argument when you claimed the HHVM wasn't anything other than a crime against humanity.

PHP could have died, but no, it got a new lease on life.

Hive is a bad copy of a google tech. Buck is a bad copy of a google tech. Hbase is a bad copy of a google tech. Rocks is cute, but it's a bit sad that it's at the center of literally everything in the company.

Phabricator isn't bad, but it's a pretty close copy to things at google.

And I think Google only joined the open compute initiative to try and talk facebook out of it's weird ideas.

Re: Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

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Post by andrei_says_ » Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

aylmao wrote: post #353

andrei_says_ wrote: post #335

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And addiction to Facebook causes depression and robs you of your abilityvto focus. Both measured and proven.

Wouldn't any addiction do this? I think the better argument to make would be that Facebook is addictive.

Everyone knows it’s addictive. But unlike tobacco and alcohol, it is not regulated and children are exposed to it.

So I guess it’s treated just like sugar.

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Post by x3n0ph3n3 » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 12:30 AM UTC

hypertext7 wrote: post #407

x3n0ph3n3 wrote: post #400

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So we should all just hide our salaries for the sake of the housing and rent prices?

No but we should be careful not to make it seem like 800k salaries are the norm.

They certainly aren't, which my original comment emoted. The reason people continue to work there has a lot to do with their absurdly high salaries.

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Post by freyir » Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 8:33 AM UTC

arunv wrote: post #226

freyir wrote: post #189

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Money. They pay many people salaries that they’d have trouble getting elsewhere. If these people stick around for the dream even after the money dries up, then I’ll be impressed. The sentiment I’ve heard so far is “let’s wait this out, and hope it goes back to business as usual.” The ethical have likely left already. Those who are most talented and in it for the money will likely be next out, if things don’t turn aro…

I personally know many people that stayed / have stayed 9-10 years at Facebook, long after the IPO and long after vesting. I think people really underestimate the value of sheer impact on end users. I know the news about FB hasn't been positive, but as an engineer a lot of people would jump at the opportunity to literally change the world every month.

Of course. After 9-10 years they probably make tremendous salaries. I guess they could take a pay cut and go somewhere else, or even retire, but that’s not for everyone.

Facebook forgot that “change the world” isn’t the end goal. It’s to change the world for the better. At that, they have failed.