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It’s actually unsettling to me how committed they are to such garbage.

I’m hoping this is just an expensive example of the Sunk Cost Fallacy because otherwise it’s perplexing and eerie.

Zuckerberg is surrounded by yes men/women. That's the only explanation I can think of. I watched a few of their videos. The video with him talking about Zoom integration with Meta and splitting off in groups with avatars, etc. Does anyone really want to work like this?? The entire benefit of remote work is that I don't have to deal with this BS. Please stop trying to force these weird extroverted fetishes like avatar huddle groups and awkward virtual whiteboarding sessions onto remote work. We have 2d whiteboarding apps that already work!

The overall bland soulless corporateness of it all is creeping me the fuck out. These presenters are all 100% dead inside.

Skipping the commute, longer in bed, home cooking, and not having to share a toilet with the phantom sprayer - there are other benefits to remote work.

Phantom sprayer! oh man that is hilarious

> It’s actually unsettling to me how committed they are to such garbage.

Facebook missed the boat on owning an OS or phone, so their only hope in protecting access to their apps is by owning a brand-new platform.

Which means that the company is all-in on VR, regardless of whether or not the result will be any good.

But it's like Putin bombing the people he needs to convince to join him while grinding the youth out of those who had already joined: how frustrating it must be for both people's advisers to tell them to stop throwing good money after bad and frigging pivot away before all that remain are ashes and a footnote in some biography.

It's just a SWE job, not being press-ganged to fight a war against your relatives.

Also, most of us will never work on anything that anyone will ever give a shit about.

Even if this particular project fails, this is mildly more interesting than yet another CRUD app.

Yeah, the list of stuff I've worked on over the years is long and boring. I'd happily work on this for Facebook salary and stock.

People aren’t happy when a company decides to to 100% in something for years, but they aren’t happy either when they keep dropping products (stadia)

We just want them to be 100% in on things we think are perfect, pretty simple really. :P

False dichotomy.

How? How many large companies are investing so much resource in novel ideas for years without seeing much back?

I watched a bit of the conference and they may start to pivot. They were talking about how whatever it is they were building is going to have browser integration.

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