throwaway_9168

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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
So he worked at MSFT till ~2011 (before they became open source friendly), and joined Netflix ~2011 (when they announced Qwikster [1]) and joined Facebook just a short while after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out? He may be talente
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Although, the situation will start to unravel very fast for all these companies if people start aggregating the house address, telephone number, social network handles, names of relatives and estimated net worth of everyone who works at the
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
>> if it’s just resentment. Ah, there it comes. Having been around lots of employees of one of the tech giants, I think the cult mentality is actually very strong. You can observe this in two specific ways: 1 Adding in a gratuitous no
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Apparently FB hyper-targeted Google employees with ads based on the profile these employees had happily volunteered when creating their FB profile. (Wish I had a reference link). Also, from what I understand (again, only hearsay, I don&#x27
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
I would certainly like Facebook the company to completely fail, but the WagesforFacebook website is probably the most idiotic thing I have seen in a long time. It is like turning into a penniless bum by spending all your money partying, and
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Why does everyone talk about increasing fines? Wouldn't it be a far more effective deterrent to charge some FB exec team for breaking some law (haven't they already done that in the "friendly fraud" case?) and put them i
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Well, its certainly much easier to upvote than to write a comment - you don't have to actually justify your upvote nor will the words be scrutinized. If you feel happy with MSFT products, you can just upvote, but if you don't like
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Well, unlike other lowly developers, FB engineers know exactly what is and isn't the right kind of mistake to make in pursuit of a company's vision. Someone who works at FB even came out and said so: "Remember, what Facebook
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
>>I'm now starting a software company. So are you going to a) hire the best developer you know and pay them whatever they ask, or b) hire the best developer who falls within your budget (which, I presume, cannot be very high when
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Suppose we reverse that sentiment a little bit: I would never friend someone again who knowingly manipulated me to suit their employer and ultimately themselves. Which, once you remove all the layers of abstraction, is what it boils down to
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Since FB has gone out of their way to weaponize "friendship", my suggestion to everyone who actually likes to have some standards in their life and don't like to be manipulated like that is simple. Just do it back to them. &q
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
"If you define winning solely as “who has the greater growth”, you’ve already lost. If you dismiss the standard of living enjoyed in Europe – one without medical bankruptcies, crushing college debts, or falling life expectancies – as a
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
That's a somewhat odd thing to say. StackOverflow would be better off not leaving dated topics for reference (as you can see when someone leaves a comment about how they wish the highest voted answer was actually up to date with the la
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
>> AFAIK we sell it to them That implies there are other buyers who are happy to pay money to take it, doesn't it? That doesn't seem to be happening though: https://qz.com/117151/us-states-banned-from-ex
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
>> I managed niche newsletters with up to 35.000 subscribers in the past, built by the company I was freelancing for. >> 100.000 views. Again, So what? A column I wrote last month had 120.000 views and 800 comments Here is the
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
It is the same filter bubble that leads an employee to triumphantly proclaim "Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Even then, you could have regulatory capture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture Speaking of regulatory capture, I think that's really what happened and why Facebook has been able to get away with, a
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
>> a. Do you really think they would raise suspicion by deleting all old posts or just silently delete specific posts? How? By asking Mark Z to spend the time doing it? Or to have a third person involved, who will then need to be trus
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
I think of them as the trust fund babies among the tech giants. A lot of people who have actually worked on both Azure and AWS/Google Cloud remark that Azure is awful in comparison, but its their only option because (some reason which
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Oh, this is the thread which is reserved for everyone who left one year ago from Amazon. If you left two years ago, you are supposed to comment in a different thread. That's just how large companies work.
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Isn't that because we haven't yet figured out how to actually get them to do complex stuff? If you could actually have a bot which could just go out and shovel snow perfectly, would you still prefer the status quo of doing it by y
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by throwaway_9168 7y ago
Big tech has nothing to fear at all. Europe is waging an all out war on companies/entrepreneurship of every size. Big tech will probably face massive losses. On the other hand, a bootstrapped company/MicroISV or whatever you wan
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
Or it could also be that people who code these algorithms are not quite skilled enough to develop them in the first place? "If it is too big to fail, it is probably too big to exist"
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
>> The only thing I know is that I'd probably have done the same, as I reckon most would have. Nothing wrong with that. But then he shouldn't have written blog posts about how WhatsApp cares about privacy, and that there wil
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
So you added to the demand for this otherwise mediocre product (education), and then wonder why the product quality isn't better? I think it is just supply-demand economics.
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
Why didn't you drop out then?
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
There was also a time when Facebook was just a random website run from a dorm room. Just like Facebook itself grew, so will the group of people who dislike it. And the trend can only go in one direction, because as Tim Cook said "If I
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
>>Facebook doesn't owe anybody a free ad-optional platform to engage with people, they aren't a government entity. Unless you are just claiming that shadow profiles are not a real thing [1], I think Facebook is becoming more
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
I am leaving a link to what I think should now be an obligatory reference to the Facebook Free Business post by DHH every time this topic comes up: https://m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-facebook-free-business/
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
Although I am guessing you would suddenly start arguing for right vs wrong if I took your own idea about defaults and suggest that all governments which want to restrict Facebook's power (which is probably all of them by now) should ju

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