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Re:A former Uber engineer's disaster story by lern_too_spel on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:39PM (#25376837)
That is true, but what specifically is the iOS app getting in that extra quarter gigabyte? What couldn't they throw away to get under 200 MB at all?
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Re:A former Uber engineer's disaster story by saagarjha on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:06PM (#25377145)
I honestly have not been provided with a good answer beyond "we just didn't spent resources to do it".
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