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Notably, MySpace is often cited as a company that failed because their codebase was terrible, which prevented them from adding features as quickly as Facebook could (despite having many more engineers at the time.)


I don't believe that for one second considering the hacks that Facebook has had to do around the limitations of PHP.




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