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Facebook’s CTO said in reference to Metamates (after saying “I love it!”): > Also the saying is a reference to a Naval phrase which Instagram has used for a wh
by bmitc 5y ago
Facebook’s CTO said in reference to Metamates (after saying “I love it!”):
> Also the saying is a reference to a Naval phrase which Instagram has used for a while "Ship, Shipmates, Self"
The fact that he thinks this in anyway justifies the ridiculousness of this is telling. It’s a primary reason why people are astonished by it, aside from how silly it sounds. First, it’s somewhat insulting to the Navy. Second, the context is not even remotely close. And lastly, the direct implication is that the company is above everyone else.
This person probably makes upwards of a million a year (probably much more?). These people are truly disconnected from society and reality.
- throwaway_4ever 5y ago> This person probably makes upwards of a million a year (probably much more?) $20m+ guaranteed.
- lake_vincent 5y agoWanna know the best part? The CTO also said that they got the term from....wait for it...Douglas Hofstadter. Let that sink in for a moment. I think ol' Dougie was trolling them and never thought they might actually run with it. Edit: source for the incredulous https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/1493661545426870277 https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/149366154542687027...
- bmitc 5y agoYea, I saw that too. And I agree, in that I wager too that Hofstadter is either having some fun or was unaware of the context or intended use or all of the above.
- lozenge 5y agoDouglas Hofstadter also contributed to Metafont, which is the 80s version of the MeTaVeRsE.
- ggfgdjfhgjsdhfg 5y agoMaybe I'm spending too much time in startup circles when I read this yesterday, I was furiously searching to see when Naval Ravikant said this...
- scottc 5y agoLol glad I was not alone.
- 2-718-281-828 5y agoScientology has entered the chat ...
- bhelkey 5y ago> This person probably makes upwards of a million a year (probably much more?). From their SEC filing, Mike Schroepfer made ~$21 Million in 2019 and $16 Million in 2020 [1]. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680121000022/facebook2021definitiveprox.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680121...
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- transitory_pce 5y agoFor that amount of money I'd say i love it too.
- nr2x 5y agoHappy to undercut your price and do it for half!
- conradfr 5y agoFor that amount I would have retired already. At least from corporate life.
- p1necone 5y agoYeah, you pay me that sort of salary I'm out after 6 months and building whatever side projects I feel like hacking away on for the rest of my life. (Unless I really enjoy the job I guess). Or I'll stick around for a couple of years and then open a restaurant that I don't have to care about profitability with. My current dream is a little hole in the wall place that sells greasy burgers, sandwiches and breakfast stuff. Maybe I'll combine the two and open an uprofitable breakfast sandwich shack with the most overengineered point of sale system ever built.
- Jimbonius 5y agoThat's probably why you don't get paid that sort of salary.
- jonny_eh 5y ago> … "Ship, Shipmates, Self" I've heard that saying was what to do in an emergency. e.g. Save the ship! If you can't, save your mates. Once that's done, save yourself.
- krenzo 5y agoWhen I was in the Navy, "shipmate" was a negative term because you only heard it when someone, most likely a khaki (senior enlisted or officer), didn't know your name and wanted to chew you out. "Hey shipmate! Your haircut is unsat!"
- claytongulick 5y agoI can't think of any time, aside from maybe bootcamp, that I was ever called "shipmate" by anyone other than a green khaki, as you say.
- bin_bash 5y agoI imagine it's kind of like when someone called me "kid" in elementary school
- lithos 5y agoYep shipmate is only used against people too new to know you’re actually insulting them (in boot camp and earlier schools it’s more of a cute jest), and when someone is so fucked up that they’re not worth reading the name on their uniform.
- claytongulick 5y agoThey also called us "seamen", fertile ground for much humor.
- teh_klev 5y ago> insulting to the Navy. You do realise these "naval terms" aren't exclusive to the military? I'm deliberately throwing quotes around that phrase for good reason; Zuckerberg, and/or his marketing clowns clearly haven't read any of Patrick O'Brian's books, or any nautical references. As someone else has pointed out, this is all sounding a bit L.Ron H.