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I love it when random commenters point out the obvious problems of the world's wealthiest, most successful companies.

I know, do you reckon Facebook engineers are sitting awkwardly in a meeting with this comment page up:

"Why didn't we think of this!!!?"

Implying you have to have lots of money to be correct in your software management approach. Try again.

Maybe it's because these unknowns can't fathom working with such tightly wound systems that after all the code reviews are done your changes are irrelevant and need to be updated again and go through another review. In before straw man, but other than pointing out day to day issues, maybe you should try to understand the argument against trying to fit everything all in one place. Do you really want to be the maintainer of all those third party libraries you imported? Do you not allow third party and adopt "not invented here"?

Try again

The point is: whatever your opinions are of Google's or Facebook's source code management process, and whatever you think the defects are of that process, and no matter what improvements you think could be made, these defects and shortcomings have demonstrably not stood in the way of these companies completing the largest software projects in history.

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