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Re:Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about ho... by dominicr on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:36AM (#21024828)
I heard it as a criticism of deciding work decisions based on popularity, with product choices, technical implementations, etc... based on facebook likes, not real deciding factors. Which is very different from growing a YouTube audience.
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Re:Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about ho... by gorzynsk on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:27AM (#21025078)
What works for gaining viewers on YouTube will not work when you have to decide on highly technical manners in software development.

For one purpose likes are useful, for other purposes they are absurd.

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