Facebook’s code quality problem

Facebook has a software quality problem. I’m going to try to convince you with three examples. This is important because it demonstrates the time-honored principle that quality matters. In demonstrates it, as Facebook engineers like to say, at scale. I don’t work at Facebook or any competitor, I’m just an observer.

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An Introduction to Learning and Using DNS Records

The Domain Name System (DNS) essentially provides a phone directory for the Internet. You might want to type in apple.com to your web browser to buy iPhone accessories, but how will your request reach Apple's web server at IP address 17.172.224.

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Flexbox For Interfaces All The Way : Tracks Case Study

The days of floats and margin trickery are finally behind us, as CSS furnishes developers with new and improved properties perfect for those delicate layouts. Layout features such as vertical alignment, evenly distributed spacing, source-order control and other patterns such as “sticky” footers are quite effortless to achieve with flexbox.

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Using DOMDocument to Modify HTML with PHP

One of the first things you learn when wanting to implement a service worker on a website is that the site requires SSL (an https address). Ever since I saw the blinding speed service workers can provide a website, I've been obsessed with readying my site for SSL. Enforcing SSL with .

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Microsoft is killing unlimited OneDrive storage because some users stashed too many movies

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer offer unlimited OneDrive storage and will scale down all subscription plans for the cloud-based service. Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings.

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Windows App Studio permite criar apps Windows 10 sem programação

Em 2013 a Microsoft apresentou-nos o Windows Phone App Studio como forma de facilitar a vida a quem quisesse criar apps simples para os Windows Phone. Com o Windows 10, essa expande-se para permitir a criação de apps universais para todos os dispositivos Windows, sem sequer se ter que sair do browser e sem saber programar.

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Activision buys 'Candy Crush' developer King for $5.9 billion

Say what you will about the quality of Activision's output, but the company makes incredibly smart business moves. Like the announcement that it purchased Candy Crush studio King Digital Entertainment for a cool $5.9 billion.

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