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Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by petre »

fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #9

Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…

> copy other business ideas

Copy Chinese business ideas. CCP propaganda is over optimized. It should work fine for ads.

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by whateveracct »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #114
fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #9

Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…

> Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: > They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. These are mature Big Tech companies. While they do empower engineers to innovate, they still task Product Managers with managing product, just like every other big company. The product direction isn’t very related to the…

Good product is always a result of a back and forth between product and engineering.

Engineers aren't machines who implement flawless specs - they make a lot of decisions along the way.

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by mountain_peak »

kristopolous wrote: post #74
fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #9

Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…

I said a similar thing yesterday: > Current valley hiring practices filter out the mischiefs needed to take things from sustaining to innovative. It's why tech is coasting and deteriorating. > Passionate weirdos like JWZ, Stallman, TBL, Carmack, Cutler, Torvalds, Woz, Pike, Wall, Jobs and Bellard are required Originally posted over here: ( https://twitter.com/emoRobot/status/1552076562027098112 ) And 15 hours ago, a…

I think following the long tail will lead you to what I witnessed with my kids in grade school; mischief is now akin to a disease - it's treated, counselled, made an example of, and sometimes medicated. I had to work hard with my kids to overcome this 'vilification' of anything against the norm.

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by hellomyguys »

Barrin92 wrote: post #52
alexashka wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What creative culture? A billion user beast does not know, need or want creative or culture. It wants profits and more of them, every quarter. TikTok's only 'innovation' is paying billions of dollars to teenagers to create meme videos. Instagram isn't losing to TikTok's 'creative culture', it's losing to American elite's favorite move - throwing money at a problem until everyone else quits, at which point you give ta…

>TikTok's only 'innovation' is paying billions of dollars to teenagers to create meme videos TikTok has at least done three innovative things. One is the frictionless sign in that doesn't require an account, secondly the well done video editing tools and most importantly abstracting away the social graph. And on the finance site this doesn't check out either. TikTok is on track to triple revenue this year alone and t…

I would also say spending billions on user acquisition is a bit of an innovation too because they did it and it paid off.

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by threeseed »

kristopolous wrote: post #74
fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #9

Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…

I said a similar thing yesterday: > Current valley hiring practices filter out the mischiefs needed to take things from sustaining to innovative. It's why tech is coasting and deteriorating. > Passionate weirdos like JWZ, Stallman, TBL, Carmack, Cutler, Torvalds, Woz, Pike, Wall, Jobs and Bellard are required Originally posted over here: ( https://twitter.com/emoRobot/status/1552076562027098112 ) And 15 hours ago, a…

All of the people who you listed are unquestionably talented.

But they are unsuited to working in very large companies which requires collaboration, patience and tolerance of other views. And pretty sure they know it too.

You can make the tired hiring practices are the problem argument but actually it's the nature of large companies themselves that self-select for these types of people.

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by FrenchDevRemote »

chowells wrote: post #94
FrenchDevRemote wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>there's some code out there that is a work of art and can inspire awe in everyone. and the people who wrote it didn't spend thousands of hours memorizing the same stupid leetcode exercises to pass lame interviews for 6 figures job, they worked on real projects tell me the fast inverse square root from Carmack would have been praised in an interview...

Perhaps if you spent more time with books, you'd know that John Carmack didn't invent the fast inverse square root algorithm associated with his name.

I found out about this after writing this comment, didn't bother to edit it(because what's the point?)

Who cares if it's carmack or buddha?

it's still brilliant code written by creative people, who can do stuff beyond memory copy/pasting code from other people

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by kpierce »

Ensorceled wrote: post #97

All of social media is broken right now. Instagram actively hides pics from my step kids, nephew and niece to show me "reels" from people I don't follow. Last night a photo from my step daughter flickered briefly and then was lost. I couldn't find it again until this morning. I literally can't find their content anymore without scrolling and dodging videos that keep popping up. Youtube broke entirely a few months ago…

All entertainment seems to be broken. Let me watch something on netflix my recommended list is almost identical to comedy, adventure, etc. Their machine learning must show that people will just watch what is in front of them.

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by mrtksn »

fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #9

Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products. Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over…

> They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms.

I find this naive, as if coders have a say on the product. The jobs in big companies tend to be very boring and actually simple since their core product is already there and all these people simply maintain and steer it based on the data.

IMHO the difference is simply in their situation. Google&Meta are absolute monopolies, nothing new had to come out of them as they were making more and more money as they optimize the same old product. They suffered the Galapagos syndrome, similar tp the Japanese smartphone market.

Apple is not in that spot, they need to aggressively innovate as the competition is strong.

Re: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy

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Post by lokar »

_jal wrote: post #116
yashap wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really think Google have a failure to innovate? Obviously search was their first, core innovation, but over the years they’ve delivered so many other successful products (many acquired, true, but even those they’ve evolved really well). Off the top of my head: - Maps - AdWords - Gmail - YouTube - Analytics - Translate - Calendar - Sheets - Docs - Drive - Meet - Slides - Drawings - Forms - Trends - Alerts I’m sure…

Edited to add acquisitions, where appropriate: - Maps (Keyhole, Where2, Endoxion) - AdWords (Doubleclick) - Gmail (reMail) - YouTube (Youtube) - Analytics (Urchin) - Translate (Phonetic Arts) - Calendar (Timeful) - Docs (Upstartle)

AdWords was not based on double click
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