Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

Post by darien » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 3:55 PM UTC

Evbn wrote: post #142

darien wrote: post #121

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Keep in mind that facebook's engineering philosophy is to push new code out every single day. This means that there is little to no QA on code push. Every engineer takes responsibility for their own code push and because people are human they mess up from time to time. I don't think this means that the culture is broken... there are simply pros and cons to on the fly site builds.

Have you ever written software? Or counted? Facebook pushes code every day. As does Google and Amazon. These are orgs with thousands of people. Not every engineer pushes code every day.

Look into 'fail fast' as a concept. Facebook claims to take fail fast to the extreme.

Post by Tipzntrix » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 8:18 PM UTC

MartinCron wrote: post #119

AlexMuir wrote: post #38

If I could short FB I would do so immediately. The fallout from this is going to be immense and long-term. I'd imagine they are facing two choices at FB right now: 1. Take the site down and prevent any further leaks. But accept the absolutely massive flak that would come from that. or 2. Continue to let the leaking happen and try to hotfix the bug. Be accused of failing to get a handle on it, but perhaps get away wit…

If I could short FB I would do so immediately. The fallout from this is going to be immense and long-term That makes me wonder if there is some malicious self-interest behind this. Here's the formula: ubiquitous yet misunderstood personal technology + sensationalist media + power of suggestion + deliberate astroturfing campaign = sudden and immense drop in stock price. Not that I actually think this is the case, but…

Well, it happened. FB dropped about 15% over the course of one day, probably thanks to this.

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