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This is the correct answer. Source: I am a FB employee.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Is a pretty good explanation of why we don't rewrite the whole site. A rewrite would involve every product dev stopping wh…

So we do lock-downs still, but it's not about working crazy hours, it's about focus. Under lock-down you are allowed to push the other stuff to the side for awhile. For instance I …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwek7dZDFN0 is a pretty good talk about everything coming down the pipe. Generics, Strict typing, Collections, etc. Too my knowledge (I'm not direct…

I'm not sure why this is such a common misconception. I almost never work 70, or 60 hour weeks. 50, often, but that's usually my own fault for making promises to others I want to k…

Yes, but no. Since moving to HipHip which is a translated/compiled version of PHP, we have been able to fork the language to clean it up. We have a strongly typed version, Generato…

I'll look into it. Not sure how tightly coupled it is with some Facebook specific stuff. http://phabricator.org/ has a very similar system if you are curious. epriestley made some …

We have a static analyzer that runs when we submit a diff yes or try to commit, but in our "require_module" we also check for circular dependencies at run time. If you create one y…

One of our struggles at Facebook was actually with circular includes that made our php codebase super tasty spaghetti. File A includes File B includes File C includes File A by abo…

Actually, we do know when you are on the Facebook corp network and can filter by that, but we rarely gate on that. We have a system we call gatekeeper for controlling the launch of…