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clearly the most efficient solution is to pontificate about other people's implementations while never having done anything of the sort at that scale yourself.

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For future internet-searchers that stumble upon this, it might be helpful to point out that better solutions exist..

It would be even more helpful to point out that the article talked about all of this.

While he was a bit rude I wouldnt assume he hasn't built something at this sort of scale.

The vast majority of programmers haven't built something at this sort of scale, so while it's very possible that he has, odds are that he hasn't.

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