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> It’s actually unsettling to me how committed they are to such garbage. Facebook missed the boat on owning an OS or phone, so their only hope in protecting ac
by vkou 4y ago
> It’s actually unsettling to me how committed they are to such garbage.
Facebook missed the boat on owning an OS or phone, so their only hope in protecting access to their apps is by owning a brand-new platform.
Which means that the company is all-in on VR, regardless of whether or not the result will be any good.
- xwolfi 4y agoBut it's like Putin bombing the people he needs to convince to join him while grinding the youth out of those who had already joined: how frustrating it must be for both people's advisers to tell them to stop throwing good money after bad and frigging pivot away before all that remain are ashes and a footnote in some biography.
- vkou 4y agoIt's just a SWE job, not being press-ganged to fight a war against your relatives. Also, most of us will never work on anything that anyone will ever give a shit about. Even if this particular project fails, this is mildly more interesting than yet another CRUD app.
- markmark 4y agoYeah, the list of stuff I've worked on over the years is long and boring. I'd happily work on this for Facebook salary and stock.