| ▲ | fluoridation 2 days ago |
| God, that's actually painful to watch. I can't believe I lasted two minutes. |
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| ▲ | twothreeone 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Mark's definitely mastered optimizing for peak cringe factor while at 1.95T valuation. |
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| ▲ | zelphirkalt 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | They just need an emotionless android without conscience, who does whatever is in the best interest of raking in money. They don't need technological excellence. Whether people at his company technologically succeed or fail, what matters is, that the company processes all the PII and feeds the algorithms. The rest is just for show. | | |
| ▲ | barnabyjones 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I think such an emotionless android would have diligently prepared numerous backup scripts, sets of lenses, actors, demonstrations etc. to cover any failure contingency, since the cost of that is infinitesimal compared to even a slight change in their brand value. | |
| ▲ | blibble 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | they have one in the already in the CEO position | | |
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| ▲ | bamboozled 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's funny because he spent so much money on hair and clothing stylists, jewellery, BJJ coaching, surfing lessons , really made an effort to come across as "cool" and the end result is...you cannot fake who you are, and your actions are what define you and make up your character, he is prime example of that. He cannot escape who he is. | | |
| ▲ | monkeyelite 2 days ago | parent [-] | | > He cannot escape who he is. One of the best CEOs in the world with about 20 years of experience at age 40? And also founded the company? He’s doing pretty good. And if you’re talking about “image” he is a millennial archetype. | | |
| ▲ | muskyFelon 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I wouldn't say he's one of the best CEOs. He's been "successful" by
- selling an unhealthy addictive product
- burying research on its mental health impact on children
- engaging in anticompetitive behavior Oh yeah, add stealing the original idea for facebook from the Winklevoss twins. I'll take being a loser if that's what it takes. | | |
| ▲ | nickserv 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It's not about the harm you do, it's about the billions you have. But you seem to have a moral compass, you wouldn't understand ;-) | | |
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| ▲ | throwawayoldie 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes he's rich and influential and blah blah blah blah blah and he's also AN ENORMOUS FUCKING DORK with the intellectual depth of a half-empty bottle of salad dressing. For all his money I'd rather be me than him. | |
| ▲ | uncircle 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I’m a Millennial and I’m no lizardman, thank you very much. | |
| ▲ | lucidone a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Eh, I wouldn't want to have a beer with him or leave my dog with him. He's doing well financially but that's about it. | |
| ▲ | ath3nd 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | jncfhnb 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Obligatory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBxTEoseZak | | |
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| ▲ | sebgan 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was going to say that’s two minutes I won’t get back (and I won’t) but, ya know, schadenfreude. |
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| ▲ | fluoridation 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It's kind of like Peep Show, where the writers tried to engineer the most awkward social situations, only without the jokes. | | |
| ▲ | chrisweekly 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Tangent: if you like cringey social awkwardness comedy (not my usual cup of tea, but in this case it's extraordinary, and hilarious), try "I Think You Should Leave". "Brian's Hat" is the 1st one I saw and maybe the best:
https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=qEX7STkSOeCVZtK- Also "Hot Dog Car" https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=jz5EKwjJZm1UMZau | | |
| ▲ | pixelpoet 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Nathan for You is almost physically painful to watch, the cringe is so intense I can only take a few seconds at a time. | | |
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| ▲ | trevithick 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Also a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ | | |
| ▲ | roryirvine 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It goes back waaay further than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuC4yZk7us | |
| ▲ | monocasa 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Everyone forgets about this cringe from Microsoft, but it is oddly endearing to me too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas | |
| ▲ | fzzzy 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Developers developers developers developers! | | | |
| ▲ | dreamcompiler 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh my god. How strong does a company's reality distortion field have to be for people to think your friends are going to want to come over to play with a new version of Windows? I mean, why not "Let's all have wine and cheese and do root canals on each other!"? | | |
| ▲ | Ancapistani a day ago | parent [-] | | It was a different time. I honestly was excited about Windows 95. Win98 was underwhelming, and WinME was a joke that I never bothered to install on my own machines. Win2K brought back some of the excitement, but not much. Then Vista came out, and it was a total flop at first. Win7 fixed most of those mistakes, but the damage was done. Vista basically killed any chance Microsoft had at building excitement for an OS. FWIW, I think the last macOS version that I was really looking forward to was High Sierra. |
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| ▲ | rkagerer 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Here's one of my favorites, of Lars doing the Wave dance on stage to ad-lib over connectivity hiccups. For some reason it evoked a lot more empathy from me... https://youtu.be/v_UyVmITiYQ?t=19m35s | | |
| ▲ | pamelafox 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I was on the Wave team! Our servers didn't have enough capacity, we launched too soon. I was managing the developer-facing server for API testing, and I had to slowly let developers in to avoid overwhelming it. | | |
| ▲ | rkagerer 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | <Waves to you> Neat, thanks for sharing this tidbit of history. Hey, what did the team think of the decision to build it on GWT at the time? (From the outside, seemed like an enabling approach but a bit like building an engine and airframe all at once). | | |
| ▲ | pamelafox a day ago | parent [-] | | Hm, I didn't work on the frontend but I don't particularly remember griping..GWT had been around for ~5 years at that point, so it wasn't super new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit I always personally found it a bit odd, as I preferred straight JS myself, but large companies have to pick some sort of framework for websites, and Google already used Java a fair bit. |
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| ▲ | floren 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wave was extremely cool and I wish it had stuck around. Hope it was as fun for you to work on as it was for us to use. | | |
| ▲ | pamelafox a day ago | parent [-] | | It was fun! Now we still see Wave-iness in other products: Google Docs uses the Operational Transforms (OT) algorithm for collab editing (or at least it did, last I knew), and non-Google products like Notion, Quip, Slack, Loop from Microsoft, all have some overlap. We struggled with having too many audiences for Wave - were we targeting consumer or enterprise? email or docs replacement? Too much at once. The APIs were so dang fun though. |
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| ▲ | tdeck 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are such long gaps after each question too. Apparently the sci-fi future will be laggier than expected. |
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| ▲ | jijijijij 2 days ago | parent [-] | | This will also not change much, since they want you to use their centralized services for data collection, not local or onsite processing. So you will always have roundtrips and shared resources. For IO this is pretty unacceptable, people get annoyed by millisecond delays. |
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| ▲ | blibble 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| robozuck was also having wifi problems |
