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John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

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521 points OlympicMarmoto | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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procaryote ◴[30 Aug 25 07:25 UTC] No.45072629[source]▶
The problem when working for Meta is that if you do a good job, you've helped make the world worse... so the real heroes are the people wasting money and reducing efficiency

If you're at all competent, go work somewhere else

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xxs ◴[30 Aug 25 07:52 UTC] No.45072756[source]▶
I'd take zstd any time while I have facebook and friends blocked. The world is not black and white.
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1. atiedebee ◴[30 Aug 25 09:37 UTC] No.45073288[source]▶
zstd can't really be attributed to Facebook. Yann Collet started work on it before joining Facebook, so it was kind of imported.

I am sure it made developing and standardizing the algorithm easier, but what makes it such a good (performant) algorithm is the design of the original creator.

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2. formerly_proven ◴[30 Aug 25 10:20 UTC] No.45073464[source]▶
On the other hand, the patent licensing kerfuffle (which I don't think was about any existing patents, just "standard policy") through the relicensing by Facebook was a drag on zstd's momentum.