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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by FullyFunctional on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:02AM (#31943991)
Did you just compare CRUD to literal rocket science?
Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by elpescado on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:28AM (#31944151)
But launching rockets isn't rocket science. You build giant steel tube, fill it with some explosives and liquid oxygen, ignite it and, kaboom! you go to space. That's the theory behind it. Now, to put that into actual practice is whole different thing.

The same with CRUD. CRUD is simple, but to do CRUD on ~Facebook~ Meta scale, that's a different thing.

Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by akhmatova on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:53PM (#31951028)
Meta-scale CRUD is fancy, to be sure. But the craft behind it is still not on the same level as building things that can, you know, blow up on the lauchpad. Or break apart up at 46,000 with you a schoolteacher and other crew members inside. While the nation watches. Stuff like that.
Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by hnfong on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:17AM (#32079841)
Whole nations _have_ been blown up by Facebook though.
Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by akhmatova on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:06PM (#31950346)
Yup, they did (despite the perorations in the sibling comment). Precious.