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> Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present. Remember when they hacked a running Android Dalvik machine because their o
by ForHackernews 2y ago
> Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present.
Remember when they hacked a running Android Dalvik machine because their organizational constraints were such that they could never remove code or delete unused classes?
https://archive.is/nIPlg https://archive.is/nIPlg
https://engineering.fb.com/2013/03/04/android/under-the-hood-dalvik-patch-for-facebook-for-android/ https://engineering.fb.com/2013/03/04/android/under-the-hood...
Facebook seems like a place where they do amazing engineering to temporarily stave off the disastrous consequences of their previous feat of amazing engineering.
- kridsdale1 2y agoBasically yeah. You should see the FB iOS code base. Yikes. And I have seen Apple code bases that literally go back to the 80s.