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" Zuckerberg all but stopped writing code for Facebook in the summer of 2005." Did he really stop coding? How can one give up coding and focus on managing? I r
by nikhildaga 14y ago
" Zuckerberg all but stopped writing code for Facebook in the summer of 2005."
Did he really stop coding? How can one give up coding and focus on managing? I really find it difficult.
- alxv 14y agoManaging a company is not that different from coding: instead of instructing machines what to do, you instruct people.
- nikhildaga 14y agoBut machines are rational and logical, people are not. :|
- alxv 14y agoWell, they are probabilistic machines then! ;-)
- buu700 14y agoActually, Zuck made a statement exactly like that last fall. He basically described his model of running a company as just another engineering problem, comparing delegating tasks to writing subroutines.
- alxv 14y agoI've found the video of him saying that at StartupSchool http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808358 http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808358 Seek at 9:30.
- buu700 14y agoAh, interesting. I was actually referring to this talk he gave here at CMU -- http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18392445 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18392445 -- but he says the same thing almost word for word (spent ~15 minutes trying to find where he says it; I couldn't find it, but I remember him saying it).
- doktrin 14y agoI don't see how he couldn't. Managing and coding are both full time jobs. How could he possibly run one of the fastest growing and most influential companies in the world while still remain an effective member of the Engineering team? On an anecdotal note, I recall reading a story recently about how the FB Engineers gave Zuck a canned 5-minute bugfix which ended up taking him close to an hour. He's clearly rusty, and with good cause.
- nikhildaga 14y agoI know he can. but, I feel that it's not easy. I myself find it extremely difficult. One does not simply give up coding. I think there must be many others here who must have faced difficulty in making a transition from developer to manager.