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A comment on Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?.

Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by meguest on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:59PM (#17996010)
https://blog.timac.org/2017/0410-analysis-of-the-facebook-ap...
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Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by reaperducer on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:52PM (#17996205)
Thanks for that link. All the defenders of Facebook should read it.

This was gold:

@interface FBSearchModule : FBNativeAppModule_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED

Somehow it me feel better about the things I produce.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by askafriend on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:57PM (#17996224)
Honestly I think it's funny and I appreciate a sense of humor from coworkers.
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Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by reaperducer on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:58PM (#17996431)
I'm not disparaging it.

Heck, I've got a debugging routine I use on one of my projects that's called panic_on_the_streets_of_london().

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Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB? by electricslpnsld on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:04PM (#17996029)
New Moore's Law: Every year Facebook's iOS app doubles in size.
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