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Susanne Oberhauser-Hirschoff's avatar

I don't understand the third diagram --- meta has 75k-ish employees, down from 85k-ish, don't they?

according to site:investor.fb.com headcount

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Kent Beck's avatar

The data is from the publication date.

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Susanne Oberhauser-Hirschoff's avatar

oh, srry for the noise --- despite the big, fat "FACEBOOK 2016" my brain only parsed the teensy Dec 2023 date of the repost, on top.

now that the data can be projected on to today, I wonder how the article hypothesis holds up.

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Kent Beck's avatar

No problem at all. That's why it's a conversation.

I'm not excited to update the data, so I won't do it. It was maybe an hour of work to look up & render back then.

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Phil Vuollet's avatar

and then in 2024 AI changes the game faster than VR...

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Jonathan Camenisch's avatar

Sign me up for that company when you start it. :)

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