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Facebook’s internal data policies

Posted on20. Feb, 2011 by Richard Fine.

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I came across this enlightening summary of what Facebook’s internal culture is like a little while ago. It’s very interesting to read about how they operate, but one part in particular caught my eye: after boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB (comes with standard lecture about “with great power comes great responsibility” [...]

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Less is Moore – creating an easier route to understanding data flow

Posted on09. Aug, 2010 by Huw Price.

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“It can’t continue forever,” so said Gordon Moore five years ago when asked for a comment about the law to which he gave his name. Moore’s Law was originally based on an observation that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit had been invented. [...]

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