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jsprogrammer on March 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hard Tech is Back

>In contrast Facebook is largely just a couple of web forms and some Big O problems at scale.

Facebook is doing more than that. Mark recently claimed that they are working on "a world-class News Feed, and a world-class messaging product, and a world-class search product, and a world-class ad system, and invent[ing] virtual reality, and build[ing] drones".

TheOtherHobbes on March 11, 2016 [–]

FB may be trying to do more than that.

Based on the glaring flaws in the base product, I'm unconvinced it has the smarts to do any of those things well.

CaptSpify on March 11, 2016 | [–]

Although I agree with you, if they can do it "good enough", it'll take off, and I'm scared they might

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