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> Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present.

Remember when they hacked a running Android Dalvik machine because their organizational constraints were such that they could never remove code or delete unused classes?

https://archive.is/nIPlg

https://engineering.fb.com/2013/03/04/android/under-the-hood...

Facebook seems like a place where they do amazing engineering to temporarily stave off the disastrous consequences of their previous feat of amazing engineering.



Basically yeah. You should see the FB iOS code base. Yikes. And I have seen Apple code bases that literally go back to the 80s.




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