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A hit of 25-50% of revenue would certainly have hurt, but probably not killed Facebook. That people will find a workaround is absolutely true. I once worked on
by mcv 6y ago
A hit of 25-50% of revenue would certainly have hurt, but probably not killed Facebook.
That people will find a workaround is absolutely true. I once worked on a system to order mobile phone subscription from a website that only worked on IE6. So we had a website that accepted orders from customers, created jobs that would be sent to one of 10 VMs that ran IE6, where a watir script would steer IE6 to enter the order into the old website.
It's the most horrible hack I ever worked on, but it worked.
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- throwawayboise 6y agoI used to have to manage mailing list subscriptions based on data in a SQL database. The mailing list software only had a web UI. So I worked out what GET and POST commands and data I needed, and scripted it in bash using curl commands to interact with the list software. Ugly, fragile, but it worked.