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I agree with all of that and I still hate Facebook. Facebook has amazingly good engineers doing amazingly good engineering. Huge contributions to open source.
by CobrastanJorji 3y ago
I agree with all of that and I still hate Facebook.
Facebook has amazingly good engineers doing amazingly good engineering. Huge contributions to open source. Fantastic pay. Amazing job of growing junior engineers into good senior engineers.
However, the products they build still seem like they generally makes the world a worse place, and that's probably more important.
- mjamesaustin 3y agoBest engineers in the world! And all that talent spent mainly trying to get people's eyeballs to look at screens for the maximum number of minutes per day...
- api 3y agoA generation or two ago the best engineers in the world were working on the most efficient ways to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible, so I guess this is progress.