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"technically competent" is a broad word. would you classify Zucks as being "technically competent" about every single technology at Meta, just because he coded

"technically competent" is a broad word. would you classify Zucks as being "technically competent" about every single technology at Meta, just because he coded the og version of Facebook

sys_64738 4y ago
The Zuck was in the just got lucky category. Facebook was the right product at the right time and he wouldn't be able to recreate that again. Look at all the garbage churn his company has spat out. It's only the acquisitions that have been successful and he spend a lot to buy the majority of stuff that totally failed. Google is exactly the same. Apart from search then really the only thing they got lucky with was gmail. The rest is a graveyard of garbage.
- solardev 4y ago
  Hey now, Google Talk was actually quite nice for the, what, six months of its existence?
- mwint 4y ago
  Having moved away from Search and Gmail, I find the only Google tools I use now are Flights and Maps. Maps can be replaced in most cases by Apple Maps, but I haven’t found a competitor for Flights.
  - toast0 4y ago
    > I haven’t found a competitor for Flights. Live near a major airline's hub, and commit to only using that airline. Then things are easy. It's hard to provide a better flight search than that provided by a company that runs a GDS, although Travelocity didn't leverage it very well when they were part of Sabre. (Travelocity did have a calendar based flight search tool, working mostly from fare rules, but heavy caching made it frustrating to use when availability was limited, and FTC wanted them to get prices complete with all fees, which was apparently too complex to add later, so I think it was discontinued; we had to discontinue the cobranded version at Yahoo! Travel anyway)
- tracerbulletx 4y ago
  Yeah because it's so technically easy to build a reliable global scale information architecture allowing thousands of people to reliably iterate on, test and deploy software simultaneously while it's continuously being accessed by billions of people and which is running on devices, operating systems, and programming languages you also created to make all of this possible.
tracerbulletx 4y ago
There are few to no engineers who are technically competent at every technology at Meta or any other company.

"technically competent" is a broad word. would you classify Zucks as being "technically competent" about every single technology at Meta, just because he coded the og version of Facebook

sys_64738 4y ago

The Zuck was in the just got lucky category. Facebook was the right product at the right time and he wouldn't be able to recreate that again. Look at all the garbage churn his company has spat out. It's only the acquisitions that have been successful and he spend a lot to buy the majority of stuff that totally failed. Google is exactly the same. Apart from search then really the only thing they got lucky with was gmail. The rest is a graveyard of garbage.

solardev 4y ago
Hey now, Google Talk was actually quite nice for the, what, six months of its existence?
mwint 4y ago
Having moved away from Search and Gmail, I find the only Google tools I use now are Flights and Maps. Maps can be replaced in most cases by Apple Maps, but I haven’t found a competitor for Flights.
- toast0 4y ago
  > I haven’t found a competitor for Flights. Live near a major airline's hub, and commit to only using that airline. Then things are easy. It's hard to provide a better flight search than that provided by a company that runs a GDS, although Travelocity didn't leverage it very well when they were part of Sabre. (Travelocity did have a calendar based flight search tool, working mostly from fare rules, but heavy caching made it frustrating to use when availability was limited, and FTC wanted them to get prices complete with all fees, which was apparently too complex to add later, so I think it was discontinued; we had to discontinue the cobranded version at Yahoo! Travel anyway)
tracerbulletx 4y ago
Yeah because it's so technically easy to build a reliable global scale information architecture allowing thousands of people to reliably iterate on, test and deploy software simultaneously while it's continuously being accessed by billions of people and which is running on devices, operating systems, and programming languages you also created to make all of this possible.

tracerbulletx 4y ago

There are few to no engineers who are technically competent at every technology at Meta or any other company.