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Re:Twitter's only black engineer in leadership quits on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @03:56PM (#10509673)
The fact that the VP's first reaction to the author's question was to assume that hiring more diverse candidates somehow directly equates to lowering their hiring standards is what's wrong with the statement.

I can't see what one has to do with the other.

I would imagine Facebook had been planning this switch for more than a month...
There are many ways to change the content and/or structure of an app. One app I worked on was essentially a fancy JSON parser- you could specify what view controllers to put where and what to put (some UIKit objects) in their views. Another app had a fixed structure but dynamic content (again, specified by a JSON file) that was downloaded regularly to keep the content up to date.