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Yep, and two folks in a garage can build FB in a week, its just a DB right?


Pretty sure that's how facebook was actually built.


Well that’s how it was started, which is a bit different. More code had been written since then.


Even if that was part of their origin story, it's a bit like saying a skyscraper was built by the person who broke ground at the site.


I mean, the OP is literally right - ice cream + milk in a blender results in a better milkshake. Try it sometime. That's how milkshakes are made at a lot of the other restaurants.


Yep and a social network is literally just a database with some pages attached. People make them all the time in basic programming classes.


Don't be dense. What I described is the _official_ and _correct_ way to make milkshakes that you will find in any decent cookbook. You've responded with false equivalence.


MCD optimise for speed and throughout though.


Throughput of a broken shake machine is zero.


And yet people drive cars that need to be serviced etc. out of action for hours at a time.




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