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Since we're on the subject, reading the "clowntown" thing makes Facebook's tech culture sound kinda toxic. It's one thing to criticize a bad implementation, and
by notJim 10y ago
Since we're on the subject, reading the "clowntown" thing makes Facebook's tech culture sound kinda toxic. It's one thing to criticize a bad implementation, and a different thing to call the implementer a clown.
- ot 10y agoI might have given the wrong impression, see my other comment below. "Clowntown" is almost always directed at ourselves, in a self-mocking, playful way. Also see answers to this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-clowntown-what-do-they-mean https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-c... > It's a way to bring much-needed levity to the process of solving hard problems. > It's a playful, tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating term to describe a situation in a company whose motto was "move fast and break things."
- notJim 10y agoAhh, that does sound better.