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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by forgingahead on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:31AM (#31946078)
But why was your padding work so shoddy?
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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by malermeister on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:51PM (#31951860)
Cause i was modifying the shoddily built codebase of the feature we were modifying.

Turns out "move fast and break things" doesn't make for maintainable code.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by FooBarBizBazz on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:55PM (#31951057)
He's a low performer; it's just one of his immutable and context-independent properties.

/s

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by kayamon on Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:55PM (#31961396)
Padding work is hard and the benefits are often marginal.
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