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I can't think of any work to be done for a Meta company that I'd find meaningful in any way. I imagine there are plenty of people who only figured this out for

I can't think of any work to be done for a Meta company that I'd find meaningful in any way. I imagine there are plenty of people who only figured this out for themselves after coming on board.

symlinkk 4y ago
Creating a VR game that your friends and family can play? Adding an API to React that shapes the course of frontend development for millions of people?
- michaelt 4y ago
  And in this photo, grandson, you can see where your grandpa spent 2 years running into walls at different angles, as part of the daily regression test for players being able to clip outside the world. Of course in the end it turned out you could clip out of the world by summoning your horse in a doorway - but not by running into a wall, no siree not on my watch. Did you know it was the first ever game where the in-game billboards for each player were auctioned dynamically? A complete auction took place in less than the time it took to draw one frame on the screen! I wish I could show you the game itself - such a pity they decommissioned the servers 15 years before you were born.
  - rednerrus 4y ago
    Submitting my 2 weeks after reading this comment.
  - ianbutler 4y ago
    As opposed to other office jobs that are so interesting? “Let me show you the insurance papers I shuffled for 40 years.”
    - wombat-man 4y ago
      Yeah, it's legit difficult to find work that is impactful and fulfilling. Making incremental changes on a product that a billion people might actually use isn't the worst thing imo. I worked hard at startups on projects that, while fun, very few people really use. After a while I gotta wonder is it really worth the effort.
- agluszak 4y ago
  > React How come that FB is inventing the most sophisticated, cutting-edge web technologies, but at the same time their core products (Facebook app, Messenger & Instagram) are an absolute mess both in terms of performance and usability, not to mention a ton of bugs that haven't been fixed for years?
  - Aperocky 4y ago
    but those things were written in PHP.
shepherdjerred 4y ago
Meta does a lot of cool stuff. The problem is that it's probably 1% of the teams.

I can't think of any work to be done for a Meta company that I'd find meaningful in any way. I imagine there are plenty of people who only figured this out for themselves after coming on board.

symlinkk 4y ago

Creating a VR game that your friends and family can play? Adding an API to React that shapes the course of frontend development for millions of people?

michaelt 4y ago
And in this photo, grandson, you can see where your grandpa spent 2 years running into walls at different angles, as part of the daily regression test for players being able to clip outside the world. Of course in the end it turned out you could clip out of the world by summoning your horse in a doorway - but not by running into a wall, no siree not on my watch. Did you know it was the first ever game where the in-game billboards for each player were auctioned dynamically? A complete auction took place in less than the time it took to draw one frame on the screen! I wish I could show you the game itself - such a pity they decommissioned the servers 15 years before you were born.
- rednerrus 4y ago
  Submitting my 2 weeks after reading this comment.
- ianbutler 4y ago
  As opposed to other office jobs that are so interesting? “Let me show you the insurance papers I shuffled for 40 years.”
  - wombat-man 4y ago
    Yeah, it's legit difficult to find work that is impactful and fulfilling. Making incremental changes on a product that a billion people might actually use isn't the worst thing imo. I worked hard at startups on projects that, while fun, very few people really use. After a while I gotta wonder is it really worth the effort.
agluszak 4y ago
> React How come that FB is inventing the most sophisticated, cutting-edge web technologies, but at the same time their core products (Facebook app, Messenger & Instagram) are an absolute mess both in terms of performance and usability, not to mention a ton of bugs that haven't been fixed for years?
- Aperocky 4y ago
  but those things were written in PHP.

shepherdjerred 4y ago

Meta does a lot of cool stuff. The problem is that it's probably 1% of the teams.