"Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321420
If Microsoft hadn't embraced open source around the time Satya Nadella took over, by now they would have probably imploded and become irrelevant (I mean in the sense of how Bing is more or less irrelevant to most…
So let us say I go to some page which lists some "potentially well off" folks, like this one: https://github.com/orgs/google/people or this: https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/people or even this :-)…
>>given the press and the way it's portrayed on HN You forgot to add the most important reason which should be at the beginning of that sentence - track record. And also, hiding important financial details e.g. the so…
Ask them how they would invest their money if they suddenly became 100x richer, which for most people isn't something they can easily comprehend. If their answers veer towards things like buying property abroad (or…
>>similar level of prestige Assuming this isn't sarcasm, this is how the word prestige is defined - "denoting something that arouses widespread respect or admiration". Facebook lied to ad buyers (customers) about video…
Since no one else has asked yet: You seem like a nice guy who could probably get a job elsewhere easily. Why are you still at FB?
>>Contrast that with e.g. home internet, where in many parts of the US there's literally just a single company providing internet connectivity, a single ISP, and it's illegal to start a competing ISP. You know, you…
Given that Microsoft now owns GitHub, I would add them into this list too. Also, perhaps some of the focus should also shift towards preventing such acquisitions (Google + YouTube, Facebook + WhatsApp), which the tech…
That's an overly simplistic analysis. >>If you owe them billions, it's their problem. It is also entirely possible that if the US decides to actually make this (say) China's problem by overtly refusing to pay back the…
Yes, you can have a scroll bar - but where do you set the minimum threshold for qualification? If I slap a search box in front of CommonCrawl, have I now created a search engine?
I can relate a funny story about this. A Microsoft employee I know very well used to work at Bing and then moved on to another organization within MSFT. He isn't a big fan of Google (surprise!). When similar news came…
Unlike, say, the design of an actual rocket ship (where it is perfectly OK to leave everything to the experts), the economy is the truest form of democracy - of the people, for the people, by the people and all that.…
OK, sorry, now I understand. >>the underlying preference for current consumption has weakened substantially I have a feeling this is a rabbit hole I don't want to go down :-) - but has the underlying preference for…
Unfortunately, when it comes to leadership, the key word in that sentence is "believable" and not "lie". The vast majority of people are just waiting for someone to come and convince them that the reason they don't get…
2009: Are you smart enough to be a Facebook engineer? 2019: Are you scummy enough to be a Facebook engineer?
This is how it went: Product Manager: And don't forget to add the word free into the copy Marketer: Make sure you A/B test bold text on some part of the sentence Copywriter: Preface it with "We are sorry to hear"…
I cannot explain it, hopefully someone from DDG actually chimes in :-) If they just use the Bing API, how can their results be better than Bing? I suppose they also use other sources.
OK, are you suggesting there is a search engine which produces better results for this specific case?
For everyone who is suggesting Google search quality has taken a hit, I would suggest a quick test to see for yourself that Google is still WAY better than the competitors when it comes to long tail queries. Example:…
>>preferably in a way that does not discourage going back to work. Isn't this much easier said than done? Where will you cap the unemployment benefits so people are not discouraged? How do you come up with the number?…
Isn't this simply suppy-demand economics? Have you ever seen a comment on HN to the effect of "yeah, if you are in the US and not already working for one of the big tech companies, at this point that just means you are…
>>Curious do you apply the same logic to for instance Google? Yes. The entire big tech policy is basically a no-holds-barred power grab at the moment, which is definitely not "no evil". >>if the change is positive, why…
>>really! Roubini has predicted a recession every single year since 2008! Unlike, say, a set of sports games, you don't get an automatic reset to zero on Jan 1 2009, Jan 1 2010 etc and start with a "fresh new…
"Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321420
If Microsoft hadn't embraced open source around the time Satya Nadella took over, by now they would have probably imploded and become irrelevant (I mean in the sense of how Bing is more or less irrelevant to most…
So let us say I go to some page which lists some "potentially well off" folks, like this one: https://github.com/orgs/google/people or this: https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/people or even this :-)…
>>given the press and the way it's portrayed on HN You forgot to add the most important reason which should be at the beginning of that sentence - track record. And also, hiding important financial details e.g. the so…
Ask them how they would invest their money if they suddenly became 100x richer, which for most people isn't something they can easily comprehend. If their answers veer towards things like buying property abroad (or…
>>similar level of prestige Assuming this isn't sarcasm, this is how the word prestige is defined - "denoting something that arouses widespread respect or admiration". Facebook lied to ad buyers (customers) about video…
Since no one else has asked yet: You seem like a nice guy who could probably get a job elsewhere easily. Why are you still at FB?
>>Contrast that with e.g. home internet, where in many parts of the US there's literally just a single company providing internet connectivity, a single ISP, and it's illegal to start a competing ISP. You know, you…
Given that Microsoft now owns GitHub, I would add them into this list too. Also, perhaps some of the focus should also shift towards preventing such acquisitions (Google + YouTube, Facebook + WhatsApp), which the tech…
That's an overly simplistic analysis. >>If you owe them billions, it's their problem. It is also entirely possible that if the US decides to actually make this (say) China's problem by overtly refusing to pay back the…
Yes, you can have a scroll bar - but where do you set the minimum threshold for qualification? If I slap a search box in front of CommonCrawl, have I now created a search engine?
I can relate a funny story about this. A Microsoft employee I know very well used to work at Bing and then moved on to another organization within MSFT. He isn't a big fan of Google (surprise!). When similar news came…
Unlike, say, the design of an actual rocket ship (where it is perfectly OK to leave everything to the experts), the economy is the truest form of democracy - of the people, for the people, by the people and all that.…
OK, sorry, now I understand. >>the underlying preference for current consumption has weakened substantially I have a feeling this is a rabbit hole I don't want to go down :-) - but has the underlying preference for…
Unfortunately, when it comes to leadership, the key word in that sentence is "believable" and not "lie". The vast majority of people are just waiting for someone to come and convince them that the reason they don't get…
2009: Are you smart enough to be a Facebook engineer? 2019: Are you scummy enough to be a Facebook engineer?
This is how it went: Product Manager: And don't forget to add the word free into the copy Marketer: Make sure you A/B test bold text on some part of the sentence Copywriter: Preface it with "We are sorry to hear"…
I cannot explain it, hopefully someone from DDG actually chimes in :-) If they just use the Bing API, how can their results be better than Bing? I suppose they also use other sources.
OK, are you suggesting there is a search engine which produces better results for this specific case?
For everyone who is suggesting Google search quality has taken a hit, I would suggest a quick test to see for yourself that Google is still WAY better than the competitors when it comes to long tail queries. Example:…
>>preferably in a way that does not discourage going back to work. Isn't this much easier said than done? Where will you cap the unemployment benefits so people are not discouraged? How do you come up with the number?…
Isn't this simply suppy-demand economics? Have you ever seen a comment on HN to the effect of "yeah, if you are in the US and not already working for one of the big tech companies, at this point that just means you are…
>>Curious do you apply the same logic to for instance Google? Yes. The entire big tech policy is basically a no-holds-barred power grab at the moment, which is definitely not "no evil". >>if the change is positive, why…
>>really! Roubini has predicted a recession every single year since 2008! Unlike, say, a set of sports games, you don't get an automatic reset to zero on Jan 1 2009, Jan 1 2010 etc and start with a "fresh new…