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If I were Zuck, I'd be building a new phone + OS.
Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
You never heard of the Quest 3?
Not at all, but it makes sense if it's a niche product addressing the needs of a subset of gamers. Look for example Among US VR (an excellent game): https://steamdb.info/app/1849900/charts/ There are 12 players online now, 22 players "peak"... A lot of people have tried VR, and the consensus is generally that VR is fun to try once but then: Is it really worth spending 1000 USD (headset only + whatever gaming PC you n…
The Among Us fad is mostly over, though as a meme it has some serious staying power.
Looking at VR Chat though, it's posting record highs in user count, hitting 52,956 over new years, with steady year over year growth for 5 years now.
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#113I love facebook. I hate other big tech companies. Facebook has done far more for software than any other company in the last 15 years. They: 1. Pushed salaries up across the board. Many people are not aware, but facebook was a major driver behind the 500k+ senior engineering pay. 2. Released major open source software: PyTorch, React, GraphQL, React Native. They basically invented modern web development. Facebook is…
Absolutely. I don’t use Facebook the social media platform, or instagram, and I only reluctantly use WhatsApp - but Facebook as a company for software engineering seems excellent.
They also seem to genuinely take care of their employees (this is of course an outsiders perspective).
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#114A stockpile of rapidly depreciating assets bought at eye-watering margins is an unusual brag for any company, no?
CPUs are rapidly depreciating, hard drives are rapidly depreciating, SSDs are doubly rapidly depreciating, with this logic no hardware buy would make sense.
Computer hardware has always been rapidly depreciating. You'd always get much more (performance/capability) for the same money just a few months to 1-2 years down the road. GPUs have been a complete outlier in this area for around ~8 years, and even they depreciate relatively quickly still.
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When I was younger I was naive to think these business leaders were some types of geniuses. Turns out every one of them is just jumping from one hype to the next, hoping something sticks. If it doesn't, write it off. If it hits, they're a genius.
That's a lot of what I've seen the upper class be. Take a lot of bets, you need one to hit VS play it safe...
And it even pans out in generations. The scion of the Tang family (as in MIT Tang hall) sent half his kids to business, half to politics, figuring out on average it would turn out ok (it did)
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#116I love facebook. I hate other big tech companies. Facebook has done far more for software than any other company in the last 15 years. They: 1. Pushed salaries up across the board. Many people are not aware, but facebook was a major driver behind the 500k+ senior engineering pay. 2. Released major open source software: PyTorch, React, GraphQL, React Native. They basically invented modern web development. Facebook is…
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#117I love facebook. I hate other big tech companies. Facebook has done far more for software than any other company in the last 15 years. They: 1. Pushed salaries up across the board. Many people are not aware, but facebook was a major driver behind the 500k+ senior engineering pay. 2. Released major open source software: PyTorch, React, GraphQL, React Native. They basically invented modern web development. Facebook is…
> They forced the whole industry to pay up. And now we have industry-wide layoffs and a massive cooling of the job market. > They basically invented modern web development. Which is essentially a non-stop carosel that encourages cargo-culting and factory-farming of interns from boot camps.
So what, you would have preferred low pay all of these years?And you think React wasnt an improvement? Its been out for a decade now, the trope that javascript frameworks churn alot is not true anymore
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
#118I love facebook. I hate other big tech companies. Facebook has done far more for software than any other company in the last 15 years. They: 1. Pushed salaries up across the board. Many people are not aware, but facebook was a major driver behind the 500k+ senior engineering pay. 2. Released major open source software: PyTorch, React, GraphQL, React Native. They basically invented modern web development. Facebook is…
Absolutely. I don’t use Facebook the social media platform, or instagram, and I only reluctantly use WhatsApp - but Facebook as a company for software engineering seems excellent. They also seem to genuinely take care of their employees (this is of course an outsiders perspective).
They pay well and promote quickly
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#119Why open source it? Just another virtue signal while their real motivation is something more sinister? They are a for-profit publicly owned company. Are investors happy about spending billions to open-source it?
Probably partially to reduce momentum in profit extraction from competitors
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#120so far hees made nothing but viral spyware but its all about to change!