I've seen a bunch of tweets today about "company X is using (your favorite esoteric language) in production but it's such a competitive advantage that it's a secret!"
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Didn’t use version control for, like, code?
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Yep. The TL was an old school FPGA guy and didn't believe in version control (he emailed zip files around), pass/fail tests (he'd inspect part of the output waveform), or using abstractions (he'd copy+paste instead). To be fair, I've heard a similar story from another company.
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In conversations with Google folks going back to 2014, many were/are open contemptuous of Azure's systems and processes and they claimed that GCP was going to stomp Azure "soon" due to Azure's technical inferiority. I'm not saying this can't happen, but it hasn't happened yet.
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When I was at Google, the target of contempt was FB. Many people believed that G+ was going to stomp FB because FB was a giant pile of technical debt that was going to fall over any day now. It turns out fixing FB's tech processes was easier than fixing Goog's product processes.
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Since you mention Erlang… You seem to have missed WhatsApp on your list of wildly successful companies.
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