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What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by ninh »

petercooper wrote: post #119
aloneinkyoto wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meetings != Communication (always avoid double negations)

Except (No Meetings != No Communication) != (Meetings != Communication)

If you define "No meetings" as !meetings, and "No communication" as !communcation, which to me sounds reasonable, then they are in fact equivalent.

This becomes apparent when you create a truth table for it:

    !meetings != !communication

    meetings | communication | expr
    F        | F             | F
    T        | T             | F
    T        | F             | T
    F        | T             | T
This is the same truth table one would get with "meetings != communication" so they should be logically equivalent.

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by hisyam »

Lewton wrote: post #124
redthrowaway wrote: post #121

I haven't felt the need to downvote a post since PG stripped us of our ability to do so, but this is unmitigated crap. A poor attempt at satire in service to some large corp is not something that should grace the front page, and the resulting conversation helps no one. It's blog spam in a different form.

That's what the flag function is for

I don't see a flag button. Is this a feature that's only available after reaching a certain amount of points?

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by lifeformed »

ninh wrote: post #151
petercooper wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except (No Meetings != No Communication) != (Meetings != Communication)

If you define "No meetings" as !meetings, and "No communication" as !communcation, which to me sounds reasonable, then they are in fact equivalent. This becomes apparent when you create a truth table for it: !meetings != !communication meetings | communication | expr F | F | F T | T | F T | F | T F | T | T This is the same truth table one would get with "meetings != communication" so they should be logically equivale…

But in dealing with language here, there are subtle differences in connotation between the two options. Just like how saying "not bad" isn't that same as saying "good".

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by kyrra »

soup10 wrote: post #66

Real reasons why working at Facebook isn't that attractive in my opinion: 1. Giant php codebase. 2. All the excitement is gone post-IPO, they've reached an inflection point and growth is slowing down. 3. Mark Zuckerburg doesn't have great social skills/intelligence. Which wouldn't be a problem, except that he runs a giant social network. 4. The corporate mission of making the world more open and connected just doesn'…

I work for a medium sized public company (500 people), that went public about 5 years ago. After going public we had a CEO that was decent, but didn't know how to run a company to make it profitable. After 1.5 years of missing earnings we got a new CEO and our stock is 10x the value it was back then.

If Zuckerburg is still playing a part in engineering, he should be the CTO of the company, not the CEO. Having a business minded person person holding the reigns of a company can help the shareholders, otherwise the stock price will have a good chance to continue its descent.

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by veyron »

kyrra wrote: post #154
soup10 wrote: post #66

Real reasons why working at Facebook isn't that attractive in my opinion: 1. Giant php codebase. 2. All the excitement is gone post-IPO, they've reached an inflection point and growth is slowing down. 3. Mark Zuckerburg doesn't have great social skills/intelligence. Which wouldn't be a problem, except that he runs a giant social network. 4. The corporate mission of making the world more open and connected just doesn'…

I work for a medium sized public company (500 people), that went public about 5 years ago. After going public we had a CEO that was decent, but didn't know how to run a company to make it profitable. After 1.5 years of missing earnings we got a new CEO and our stock is 10x the value it was back then. If Zuckerburg is still playing a part in engineering, he should be the CTO of the company, not the CEO. Having a busin…

Facebook is in a quandary because it would be difficult to monetize (to the extent that it reclaims the 100B market cap) and still retain its user base. And if these business people existed, don't you think Facebook would have already hired them?

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by petercooper »

ninh wrote: post #151
petercooper wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except (No Meetings != No Communication) != (Meetings != Communication)

If you define "No meetings" as !meetings, and "No communication" as !communcation, which to me sounds reasonable, then they are in fact equivalent. This becomes apparent when you create a truth table for it: !meetings != !communication meetings | communication | expr F | F | F T | T | F T | F | T F | T | T This is the same truth table one would get with "meetings != communication" so they should be logically equivale…

"No meetings != no communication" is analogous to saying "Without meetings, people may still be communicating."

"Meetings != communication" is analogous to saying "At meetings, communication doesn't necessarily occur."

In terms you would personally appreciate: (No Patrick Hernandez != No Dancing) similarly is not equivalent to (Patrick Hernandez != Dancing)

One says without Patrick Hernandez, there may be dancing. The other says with Patrick Hernandez there certainly is not any dancing ;-)

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by vilda »

onan_barbarian wrote: post #55

The funny thing about this list is that a few of the items, while intended as satire, are actually spot-on. Especially item #1: "But the rate of source code commits continues to grow proportionally with the number of engineers. This is in clear violation of the law that Fred Brooks established nearly 40 years ago in The Mythical Man Month." Whoop de do. This might, just maybe, because no particular behavior of FB rea…

Question is how well peer-reviewed the code is before deployment. Facebook is handling a lot of personal data about their users. Security vulnerabilities may not harm Facebook as much as their users.

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by jamesbritt »

hisyam wrote: post #152
Lewton wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what the flag function is for

I don't see a flag button. Is this a feature that's only available after reaching a certain amount of points?

I used to see it, then one day it vanished.

Re: What I Hate About Working At Facebook

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Post by cbs »

lifeformed wrote: post #153
ninh wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you define "No meetings" as !meetings, and "No communication" as !communcation, which to me sounds reasonable, then they are in fact equivalent. This becomes apparent when you create a truth table for it: !meetings != !communication meetings | communication | expr F | F | F T | T | F T | F | T F | T | T This is the same truth table one would get with "meetings != communication" so they should be logically equivale…

But in dealing with language here, there are subtle differences in connotation between the two options. Just like how saying "not bad" isn't that same as saying "good".

But in dealing with language here, there are subtle differences in connotation between the two options.

We're not dealing in language, formal symbols exist to remove the ambiguity of language.

Plain and simple, the symbols used don't mean what the poster thinks they mean.

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