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They counted pull requests merged during a few hours while Facebook was down. I’m guessing the number of PRs merged during any 5-hour window is extremely volati
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
They counted pull requests merged during a few hours while Facebook was down. I’m guessing the number of PRs merged during any 5-hour window is extremely volatile, so it’s not surprising that they found it different than average when sampled randomly.
This reads like someone wanted to capitalize on the Facebook outage to get some traffic, so they threw their developers under the bus for some clickbait.
I wonder how good their presumably hard-working developers feel about the company blog implying that they’re all using so much Facebook that their productively suffers by a measurable amount every day.
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- 5350-uiop-1130 5y agoyea kind of tasteless. although seems to be part of their business offering, making devs more productive....
- _fat_santa 5y agoI get why they did it, it makes for good branded content. But I was a bit confused in the article, which PR's? Are they just talking about PR's closed at Facebook? Or PR's closed anywhere? I think the author should have heard one phrase before starting on this blog post: correlation does not equal causation. In other news I'm working on a blog post about how the Facebook outage caused temperatures to drop 20% in New Jersey. Idk it's either Facebook or a cold front
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