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jacques_chester on July 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Facebook Ships Code

Of course not. Much faster to type

    UPDATE users SET email = username || '@facebook.com';

Then let the users sort out the exceptions.

alttab on July 5, 2012 [–]

I think he was being sarcastic - you can see the semicolon in the middle of the command which looks like pretty much what they did with the whole e-mail debacle. You simply removed the second incomplete statement.

jacques_chester on July 5, 2012 | [–]

I now realise that I am underqualified to work at Facebook. :(

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