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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by kqr on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:15AM (#17607205)
Someone at some point said "Google may not be successful for the interview practises they use; they're big enough that they could very well be successful despite the interview practises they use."

It stuck with me, and is applicable to so many things. Including, maybe, this?

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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by kungtotte on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:06AM (#17608112)
Another question is just the sheer scale of the FAANG companies, making things work at that scale is likely to be counterintuitive sometimes.

I just looked it up, Facebook has 2.2 billion users monthly. That's almost a third of the entire planet.

Shit that makes sense for them won't make sense for 99% of everyone else.

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