“This week marks the beginning of my 4th year at Facebook”
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#2It seems that it's more of a product oriented (solve problems) culture than an engineer oriented (create something cool) one. Not necessarily a bad or good thing but it's consistent with the impression I got from Facebook in the last couple of years.
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#3It seems that it's more of a product oriented (solve problems) culture than an engineer oriented (create something cool) one. Not necessarily a bad or good thing but it's consistent with the impression I got from Facebook in the last couple of years.
I had the impression that Google was engineer oriented but I wonder if this is still the case with their recent refocus into a small number of key products.
With that in light, how would we (to the best of our knowledge) characterize some of the big/promitent software players? (FB, GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, NFLX, RAX, DBOX, etc.)
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#4time to quit and do something real.
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#5It seems that it's more of a product oriented (solve problems) culture than an engineer oriented (create something cool) one. Not necessarily a bad or good thing but it's consistent with the impression I got from Facebook in the last couple of years.
I had the impression that Google was engineer oriented but I wonder if this is still the case with their recent refocus into a small number of key products. With that in light, how would we (to the best of our knowledge) characterize some of the big/promitent software players? (FB, GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, NFLX, RAX, DBOX, etc.)
> small number of key products.
Are we thinking of the same Google? Google has gotten its hands on everything from niche programming languages to web browser to computer vision and neural networks. This, of course, in addition to its traditional strengths in search, distributed databases, and infrastructure.
Yes, they are still an engineering company. Watch the I/O keynote. They are deeply vested in various areas of computer science, machine learning, and distributed systems.
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#6"Understand the trade-offs being made and the factors that led to them."
As a user of Facebook, this quote explains a lot. I run a Facebook page with 90k+ likes, and have grown to expect it to simply not load completely without refreshing it multiple times. I've long suspected we were the victim of some type of 'trade-off.' It appears my suspicion were correct.
We also spend five to seven thousand dollars a month on advertising. I wonder how much more effective our campaigns would be if our page loaded 100% every time.
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#7"Understand the trade-offs being made and the factors that led to them." As a user of Facebook, this quote explains a lot. I run a Facebook page with 90k+ likes, and have grown to expect it to simply not load completely without refreshing it multiple times. I've long suspected we were the victim of some type of 'trade-off.' It appears my suspicion were correct. We also spend five to seven thousand dollars a month on…
>It appears my suspicion were correct.
The text in your post doesn't support this conclusion (which tradeoffs are causing the behavior?). Just because something isn't working right doesn't necessarily mean it is because of tradeoffs; it could just be a bug (Edit: that they aren't aware of).
Also, it seems strange that you are experiencing that problem since many pages have more likes (for example Barack Obama's page has over 35 million likes) and yet load quickly; perhaps the problem is unrelated to the number of likes?
Edit: Of course if it is a bug and Facebook is aware of it but hasn't fixed it yet then the reason for not fixing it yet may be due to tradeoffs.
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#8"Understand the trade-offs being made and the factors that led to them." As a user of Facebook, this quote explains a lot. I run a Facebook page with 90k+ likes, and have grown to expect it to simply not load completely without refreshing it multiple times. I've long suspected we were the victim of some type of 'trade-off.' It appears my suspicion were correct. We also spend five to seven thousand dollars a month on…
>It appears my suspicion were correct. The text in your post doesn't support this conclusion (which tradeoffs are causing the behavior?). Just because something isn't working right doesn't necessarily mean it is because of tradeoffs; it could just be a bug (Edit: that they aren't aware of). Also, it seems strange that you are experiencing that problem since many pages have more likes (for example Barack Obama's page…
I have experienced the same problem. It happens randomly to random pages and not all of them are high profile pages. I would chalk it up to it being a bug.
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#9Thanks for posting, patangay! I wrote the post if anyone has any questions :)
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#10time to quit and do something real.
Not everyone needs to be an entrepreneur or working at a site that ends with .org in order to be happy, feel successful or make a difference.