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		furburger on May 1, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Facebook stores its billions of photos i don't know anything about cal's departure, but i can say that any large co like yahoo, google, msft, apple etc is more or less impervious against the loss of one or a few technical individuals. his departure may have symbolic value but the machine that is chugging there will keep chugging, for better or for worse

jamie on May 1, 2009 [–]

Don't confuse continuing to operate with continuing to innovate.

A few technical individuals can move the needle more than you'd imagine, even at a big co.

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