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		markstos 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc How is the original author making out in the new arrangement?

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Aurornis 1 day ago | [–]

Jason Evans worked for Facebook for almost two decades, starting in 2009 - https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/

He's doing just fine. If you're looking for a story about a FAANG company not paying engineers well for their work, this isn't it.

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