Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by krapp on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:16PM (#22195057)

>"Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality"

They aren't nearly as strongly correlated as many developers might like to believe.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by danbolt on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:56PM (#22199193)

I work as a programmer in the games industry and I’ve noticed that frequently as well. Commercially successful games aren’t always a strong indicator of code quality and often it tends to be that the bad code “luckily didn’t matter” in cases of success.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by seppin on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:23PM (#22196482)

I prefer to think of it as "perfectly coded" projects have 0 commercial value until someone figures out a customer for it.

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