They way at least FB is using a monorepo is very different than any kind of monorepo most people imagine. It's not just about tooling, git itself could never handle it. I am all about using a monorepo but Google and FB having one is not the an argument for it.
I don’t know where Statista gets their numbers but Meta reported their active users this week at 1.92B. It was a drop from 1.93B which is partially why their stock tanked.
why would you tell anyone that they barely passed an interview and why pay an intern according to interview performance? I think the issue here is not the interns
The best description of have scene of the pop psychology and pop business books is “knowledge porn”. Guns germs and steel is like that. Makes the reader feel the secret history of the world or some topic is being revealed even though it’s at least partially, or wholly, fantasy :)
In my head, I consider these sorts of books more generalized models to run information through. For example, when I think about some historical occurrence I run it through evo bio, Marxism, geo determinism, critical race theory, symbolic culture, etc. Yeah, some of the origins of these models are dumbed-down, but my reasoning is that the more of these models I have, the closer I can get to that secret history :P
That's actually part of the definition of a calorie: "The modern (small) calorie is defined as the amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C"
