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>> In contrast Facebook is largely just a couple of web forms and some Big O problems at scale. Yes, and Steph Curry is just a guy shooting a ball in a basket.
by TheBiv 11y ago
>> In contrast Facebook is largely just a couple of web forms and some Big O problems at scale.
Yes, and Steph Curry is just a guy shooting a ball in a basket.
- nmrm2 11y agoI don't think parent meant to say that the technology behind Facebook is trivial. Just that it's trivial when contrasted with a bunch of technologies that are at best in prototype stage. A decade-long life extension or growing meat without animals would both probably involve more "Hard Tech" style innovation than building Facebook. Other observations are IMO less pat. E.g. designing cheaper/better sensors could be either harder or significantly easier than building a Facebook. Depending on the type of sensor and the cost improvement.
- nailer 11y agoA lot of the FB tech circa 2010 seemed to be reinvented versions of things ex-Google FB staff used. They've done a lot of innovation since then though.
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- pessimizer 11y agoWhich is absolutely true if there were no such thing as the NBA. Being good at Donkey Kong is also difficult.