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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by darien on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:29PM (#4567102)
Keep in mind that facebook's engineering philosophy is to push new code out every single day. This means that there is little to no QA on code push. Every engineer takes responsibility for their own code push and because people are human they mess up from time to time. I don't think this means that the culture is broken... there are simply pros and cons to on the fly site builds.
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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by Evbn on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:32AM (#4568777)
Have you ever written software? Or counted?

Facebook pushes code every day. As does Google and Amazon. These are orgs with thousands of people. Not every engineer pushes code every day.

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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by darien on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @11:55AM (#4571009)
Look into 'fail fast' as a concept. Facebook claims to take fail fast to the extreme.
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