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That is why I have no sympathy to spare for anyone who chose to work for Zuckerberg's social toilet.
Yes, they certainly should have taken one of the many other jobs that are widely available right now.
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If I had taken a Reddit/HN approved job instead of working at FAANGs for 20 years, I’d be looking at another 20 years of soul crushing work. Instead, I’m retired. Sure you have to roll your eyes at the corporate nonsense sometimes but I’m happy I made that trade-off.
Nothing wrong with that in principle, I just can't imagine it. I've never worked at FAANGs, but I have at some pretty closely adjacent outfits (swarming with ex-FAANGs) and 3-4yr is just about the most I can stand before I have to quit (or get myself fired) for a while and reset. Whenever push comes to shove between the medieval politicking and just.. engineering fact, I just can't bring myself to throw what I know t…
No CAPTCHA, no Javascript, no geo-blocking, no DDoS shenanigans
cr=$(echo x|tr x '\r')
nl=$(echo x|tr x '\n')
curl https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/ \
|sed "1s/^/HTTP 1.0 200 OK$cr$nlContent-Security-Policy: default-src: 'none';$cr$nl$cr$nl/" > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
#links https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/
curl https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/ \
|egrep -o '(articleBody.*isBasedOn)|(>Someone.*shit.)' \
|sort \
|sed "1{s/>//;
s///;
s//Meta/;
s//Meta AI/;
s/"/\"/;
s/'/'/;};
2{s/articleBody\":\"//;
s/\\\n/@@/g;
s/\"\".*//;
s/\",\".*//;
s/\\\//;
s/@\{3,5\}/@/g;}" \
|tr @ '\n' \
|fmt > 1.txt
less 1.txt
#links -dump https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/|lessEarlier quoted context omitted.
Same reason any of us work: money.
If I had taken a Reddit/HN approved job instead of working at FAANGs for 20 years, I’d be looking at another 20 years of soul crushing work. Instead, I’m retired. Sure you have to roll your eyes at the corporate nonsense sometimes but I’m happy I made that trade-off.
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If I had taken a Reddit/HN approved job instead of working at FAANGs for 20 years, I’d be looking at another 20 years of soul crushing work. Instead, I’m retired. Sure you have to roll your eyes at the corporate nonsense sometimes but I’m happy I made that trade-off.
Nothing wrong with that in principle, I just can't imagine it. I've never worked at FAANGs, but I have at some pretty closely adjacent outfits (swarming with ex-FAANGs) and 3-4yr is just about the most I can stand before I have to quit (or get myself fired) for a while and reset. Whenever push comes to shove between the medieval politicking and just.. engineering fact, I just can't bring myself to throw what I know t…
Interestingly, my worst career experience was at a company with ~30 people. So you don't necessarily need size to produce bad results.
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Worst still, they destroyed social media, perhaps even contributed to destroying mobile (destroyed in the sense that, well, they became dumpster fires).
I'm not sure a growth-obsessed Facebook could have done anything other than destroy social media, in the same way that a growth-obsessed Google couldn't have done anything other than destroy the web. The only plausible alternate reality I can see would have been one where US anti-trust was vigorously enforced and kept Instagram and WhatsApp from being bought. But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust l…
A nice hint for legislators to come.
In this specific case, maybe a formal language to define the tests and their optimal solutions so that they can be “rendered” to multiple programming languages and the solutions can be measured against the definition automatically.
As for Zuckerberg’s employees not deserving sympathy, I think we all found ourselves in abusive relationships with companies thanks to stock options and other sorts of handcuffs that aren’t easy to get rid of. I have twice quit jobs for moral divergence with company goals and I can tell you it’s not as easy as some people paint it. The first time was the hardest.
It feels like, when the history of Facebook is written, it will be clear that the company destroyed itself.
The problem is, what were their other options? They made a ridiculous amount of money on a social network. Where do you go from there? VR and AI were and are attempts to remain relevant, but not every company succeeds in doing that, and Facebook is particularly unsuited to it - you don’t just pivot from web dev to innovating in new fields. One of the common private equity playbooks recognizes this - they’ll often jet…
I think I left 10 or 12 years ago?