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This is the real Facebook secret sauce in convenient flowchart form: What's the most evil thing we can think of doing? V Candidate <-----<-------
by its_so_on 14y ago
This is the real Facebook secret sauce in convenient flowchart form:
What's the most evil thing we can think of doing?
V
Candidate <-----<------- Think of the next-most evil thing we can do
V ^
Can we code that? (no) ------->------->^
V (yes) ^
Is it legal? ^
V (yes/no) ^
Can we get away with it? (abs. not)--->^
V (yes/maybe/prob. not) ^
Keep shipping! ^
V ^
Did we get in trouble for it? (no) ^
V (yes) V ^
Claim it was a mistake! V ^
V V ^
Still in trouble? (no)-> Keep feature->^
V (kind of) ^
Being sued for it? (no) --->--->^
V (yes) ^
Throw money at lawsuit ^
V ^
Did we lose? (yes/no) ----->--->^
- alttab 14y agoNot very constructive to the conversation, but I gotta give it to ya, this is pretty funny.
- gouranga 14y agoThat's great - thanks for posting it :)
- gouranga 14y agoIf you're going to down vote, please at least say why...
- bajsejohannes 14y agoComments on HN tends to be voted down if they are not substantial. To quote http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html: Does your comment teach us anything? That page also says that a simple thanks may be acceptable, but the consensus seems to be that those comments are superfluous as well.
- tfb 14y agoSadly, that flowchart has some truth to it. I asked this in another (semi-dead) thread and it didn't get a response, so I'll ask again as I couldn't find any information on it. Was any legal action taken against facebook in the recent e-mail hijacking fiasco? I think there should be, since e-mail has pretty much replaced snail mail in terms of business communications, which directly affects the livelihood of many people. Companies like facebook with so much power at their fingertips should not be able to get away with doing things like altering millions of people's address books for their own selfish reasons.