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Working at Facebook Sounds Like Joining a Cult (gizmodo.com)
Vanity Fair has run some excerpts from an upcoming book by a former employee that gives insight on how things work at the social network. The chapter, among other things, details Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's actions when Google launched its own social networking service Google Plus. The extract finds Zuckerberg's behaviour so intense that it calls it "bordered on the psychopathic." It reads: [...] hit Facebook like a bomb. Google Plus was the great enemy's sally into our own hemisphere, and it gripped Zuck like nothing else. He declared "Lockdown," the first and only one during my time there. As was duly explained to the more recent employees, Lockdown was a state of war that dated to Facebook's earliest days, when no one could leave the building while the company confronted some threat, either competitive or technical.â [...] Rounding off another beaded string of platitudes, he changed gears and erupted with a burst of rhetoric referencing one of the ancient classics he had studied at Harvard and before. "You know, one of my favorite Roman orators ended every speech with the phrase Carthago delenda est. 'Carthage must be destroyed.' For some reason I think of that now."
It's good PR to say he studied Latin and the Classics. It's not such good PR to say he was too busy with FriendFace to actually learn anything from those classes.
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...and you have been telling everyone you meet about it ever since! Honestly, Facbook quiters are worse than vegans.
Hoodie hoods up! Drawstrings to maximum tightness! Engage!
Do you actually have to JOIN the cult?
Or can you issue a SELECT COALESCE and use a subquery instead?
"911? I am being illegally detained at ADDRESS under threat of harm if I try to leave. Please help."
Better yet -- "I'm being illegally detained under threat of harm if I try to leave. The person threatening me is babbling incoherently... though I am told by one of my colleagues that he may be speaking in an ancient tongue with almost religious fervor, quoting something about wanting to destroy his enemies and an entire city. I'm really scared. Please send help!"
Facebook is safe because they are the 100lb gorilla
A 100lb gorilla is a very small gorilla....
We're living in the age of ever-shrinking computers. What required an S/360 system in the 1970s can often be done by a microcontroller these days. What if the metaphors are shrinking, too? I, for one, welcome our 1lb gorilla overlords of the 2050s. Look how cute they are!
Ezekiel 23:20