fbemployee1234

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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
You make a principled point that I respect. I’m generally trying to get shit done. They aren’t always at odds with each other, but often are. Personally, I hate web design and layout, so I want to do as little of it as possible. But I know
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
How many successful businesses have you launched doing things “the right way”? The point is there are many paths to success. Maybe candy japan didn’t do things the way you think they should be done (it’s frankly rude to refer to template ha
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
In some of my previous employers, this type of work was all any employee actually did. Calling it fraud is probably not accurate. Has anyone ever gotten prosecuted for brown nosing by shifting email times?
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
The skills you described are those of a data scientist/engineer hybrid. Have you tried clearly branding yourself as a data engineer? There’s a lot fewer of those, and the job is overlapping to the nearest understanding of a hiring mana
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
This sums up the advertising industry as a whole.
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
I think you could also identify similar negative consequences from any entity the size of Facebook. I think it’s a side effect of being big, and fb is no different than any of the F1000 or just about any government on the planet. What I do
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
How are you measuring this utility function? What is the evidence that facebooks objective is to hack endorphins? All the conversations I’ve heard discuss how to make products better for users. Even if it hurts standard metrics. For example
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
I don’t think the product is bad, nor do I think it’s evil. The people who decide to use the service every day get value. I think the negative fb news of late has really enabled people to strengthen their confirmation bias against fb. For e
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
This. Poor countries use Facebook for really valuable actions like talking to loved ones. In the states we have alternatives and can afford a few bucks a month for a service. But in poor countries, Facebook is often a lifeline (sometimes li
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by fbemployee1234 8y ago
Throwaway for obvious reasons. Opinions are my own. I joined in the last year. I had major issues with FB before, reflecting typical HN user stance. I joined because I was curious and their promises sounded like an amazing place to work. An