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		LeoNatan25 on Aug 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: App sizes are out of control Facebook is THE mother lode of terrible engineering. They have turned it into an "art". You can see it across their end user offerings, as well as their open source ones. What is perplexing is that they have some of the most talented engineers out there. I'm guessing those people are using the resources of the company to research and do what is interesting to them, while clowns run the actual projects.

kalleboo on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

And here's a source to prove it: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

> "In the case of the Facebook application, there are more than 18,000 classses in the application"

18,000 classes. Absolutely ridiculous.

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