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		zasz on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005) Just because it was Facebook doesn't mean the initial code was very good. Twitter's suffering a lot of technical debt from some bad initial decisions in the codebase.

herdrick on March 3, 2011 [–]

Those weren't bad decisions, they were technical debt - a very useful thing in early stage startups.

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