I don't use facebook. Is this reposted somewhere?
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#642> [edit: I was being overly poetic here, as several people have missed the intention. As a systems optimization person, I care deeply about efficiency. When you work hard at optimization for most of your life, seeing something that is grossly inefficient hurts your soul. I was likening observing our organization's performance to seeing a tragically low number on a profiling tool.] as someone who spends a lot of time…
So what do you use? Vanilla JS?
at work we use React, though i tend to work on lower-level JS code and don't have to touch it very often.
my OSS code (almost 100% libs) is vanilla JS with zero deps.
for my own projects i've been moving to fine-grained reactivity libs, like Solid or Voby: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht.... the numbers here are a bit misleading since the benchmark is dominated mostly by DOM layout/rendering, so a difference of even 10% is actually quite significant because it's typically pure JS / GC overhead.
React has many benefits for large, diverse teams (e.g. ecosystem, hiring, docs/google-able answers), but performance is not one of them; it has many performance footguns and landmines, especially with hooks.
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If it was the left wing driving Facebook it would not collect so much data. They’re the ones who wrote about big brother, not the other guys.
Depends on whether you see the Stasi and KGB as "left" or "right" organizations. It doesn't take a whole lot of thought to convince yourself that these are the wrong terms to use when discussing the problem of large-scale data collection and misuse.
As for Orwell, he was a socialist, for what little that's worth.
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#644I don't use facebook. Is this reposted somewhere?
Full memo is reproduced here https://archive.vn/Lmu9g
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If it was the left wing driving Facebook it would not collect so much data. They’re the ones who wrote about big brother, not the other guys.
Yes Orwell was a leftist, but he also wrote Animal Farm, a criticism of leftists for becoming hypocrites after gaining power.
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#646Can someone please paste the letter? I haven’t had fb account for years now.
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#647For those who don't want to view Facebook post (or can't login to it). I created pastebin of his resignation post: https://pastebin.com/Jk5TrGch
Also, the other discussion (700+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022484
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#648Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it was the left wing driving Facebook it would not collect so much data. They’re the ones who wrote about big brother, not the other guys.
As far as I am aware Orwell's big brother was created after the left wing totalitarianisms, so I have no idea what are you on about.
Well, he fought the fascists in Spain (you can read homage to Catalonia) so he knew about them. Animal farm is his description of the Russian revolution and after. Ww ii saw two right wing, one left wing and Japan as the totalitarian states.
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#649I’m a strong believer in dictatorship at companies. Every team has someone with ultimate decision making power, as does every project with a project leader, and above teams are leaders who have authority above them, and so on. Of course there are meetings and discussions but there is always someone with the authority to make a decision that everyone has to respect.
Honestly it benefits everyone. ICs like that authority is clear. Effective companies are mission-focused and they are not democracies. FB sounds extremely bloated and ineffective.
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#650"I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage" One of the most important things an organization can have is a "no man". A project that I was involved in when I worked at Google was completed on time primarily because we had a very senior (DE level) engineer tangentially involved in the project. He was near the end of his career, and he just didn't give a f* about politics. He'd sit in design…
Definitely depends on the person. The amount of projects I’ve worked on that were dismissed by such people done anyway and invariably became the saving of the team/org/company is laughable. These always took longer as they were under resourced and the people working on it did because of belief not because it was good for their status in the company. The hallmark of these is the last minute surge in resourcing when management figures out they got it wrong. Sometimes I think it’s almost like they bought an option on saving themselves by badly resourcing something at the start.