If you’ll allow, a quick manifesto:
The Hacker Way
As part of building a strong company, we work hard at making Facebook the best place for great people to have a big impact on the world and learn from other great people. We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way.
The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers. In reality, hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done. Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I’ve met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world.
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo.
Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once. To support this, we have built a testing framework that at any given time can try out thousands of versions of Facebook. We have the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep shipping.
Hacking is also an inherently hands-on and active discipline. Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works. There’s a hacker mantra that you’ll hear a lot around Facebook offices: “Code wins arguments.”
Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic. Hackers believe that the best idea and implementation should always win — not the person who is best at lobbying for an idea or the person who manages the most people.
To encourage this approach, every few months we have a hackathon, where everyone builds prototypes for new ideas they have. At the end, the whole team gets together and looks at everything that has been built. Many of our most successful products came out of hackathons, including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development framework and some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop compiler.
To make sure all our engineers share this approach, we require all new engineers — even managers whose primary job will not be to write code — to go through a program called Bootcamp where they learn our codebase, our tools and our approach. There are a lot of folks in the industry who manage engineers and don’t want to code themselves, but the type of hands-on people we’re looking for are willing and able to go through Bootcamp.
Facebook [SEC]
If there had been any 'whatevs' worked into that, I would have suspected Matt has been getting into ghostwriting.
Did he hire Matt to write that?
Nice dog Zuck, did you steal that too?
- Winklevii
My MD made me sit in the corner last time I "hacked" a pitchbook
-Analyst
Hunh?
-GS
once you clear $1 million in comp and fly private as part of your "comprehensive security program", you no longer qualify as a "hacker". Please return your card to the address indicated on the back.
-President, United Association of Hackers
Exactly
-MS
Facebook has 2011 net income of exactly $1bn… you know what would be cool..
Like
-James “Zucks can call me Jim” Gorman
he's no ray dalio
Is this like that time when girls tried to reclaim the word "slut"? If so, I'm going to tell Mark Zuckerberg the same thing I tell sluts…"I'll call you whatever you want. Just keep doing what you're doing."
-Peter Thiel
What a sello- oh wait, I'd sell out at that valuation, too
"Done is better than perfect" was also our motto for many years.
- UBS Fixed Income Risk Management
It wasn't just your desk saying that.
the hoodie says "I'm a bum off the street impersonating Belichick," but the lapdog says "I'm worth more than Brady, Belichick, Kraft, and a dozen other teams"
Where is the best place to pick up women?
a) Hacker bootcamp
b) Russian sauna in Jersey City
c) The Jane on a Saturday night with Matt as your wingman
d) CFA camp
If you answered, "I'd rather stay at home and put my dick in a blender" then you are correct!
Peter Thiel is gay…fuck…this joke no longer works at all.
-Guy who hates when facts ruin jokes
Man slut. That's a thing
Code may win arguments, but it doesn't win keg laps, bro.
The bank account says, "I have more money than God," but the lapdog says, "I'll forever be a beta male." -_-
You know what's not cool…trying to control the lexicon when nobody really takes you seriously.
- Everyone at Lycos, Excite, HotBot, Alta Vista, DogPile, Inktomi
Properly armed B-29s end arguments
- Curtis LeMay
Forget about Facebook, you'd think by now someone would have hacked his face.
So you're saying I have nothing to worry about?
- J. Assange