Facebook threatens to leave Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’

Say what one might about Meta's company & business policies - but their engineering talent is pretty top-notch. (Note: I am not a FAANG person). Having their office in your backyard genuinely lifts the quality bar in the place.

Their openstack hardware standard was a quite a good step. Datacenter hardware & designs will get standardized eventually by such ventures. React and graphQL are very innovative software designs. The FAIR team regularly publishes excellent ML papers (IMPO they are second place after Google Brain, and slightly ahead of MSR in ML research). They pay well and retain quite a good pool of talent. If you're interested please have a look at the Facebook OpenSource channel. That's a pretty good source of learning cutting edge stuff working on scale - and unlike G-Brain, its genuinely open 99% of the time.

Again, I dont like their business product(s). But the team that works on them is pretty marvelous

Facebook threatening us with a good time. Too bad they'll never go through with it.

Old news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30207734

I actually get a lot of value from facebooks products, especially react, jest and graphql. I also use WhatsApp a lot. I believe the net value of Meta is positive, since there work a lot of smart guys and they have awesome open source products. I’m always impressed by the architecture of react, I could probably never design something that smart.

"American propaganda machine, go fuck yourself"

(cue to footage of facebook being towed back to port)

EU: Go Zuck yourself!

Zuck: f*ck