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Tycho
on March 3, 2011
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Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005)
The guy who started programming Facebook with Zuckerbeg apparently had
just
finished 'Perl for Dummies' and never coded before in his life...
(the For Dummies books
are
really good, mind you)
zasz
on March 3, 2011
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Just because it was Facebook doesn't mean the initial code was very good. Twitter's suffering a lot of technical debt from some bad initial decisions in the codebase.
herdrick
on March 3, 2011
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Those weren't bad decisions, they were technical debt - a very useful thing in early stage startups.
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(the For Dummies books are really good, mind you)