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Napster was written by a 19yrs old. Bram wrote bittorent when he was 26yrs old. Justin Frankel was 22yrs old when he wrote gnutella with Tom who was 25yrs old.
by segmondy 8y ago
Napster was written by a 19yrs old.
Bram wrote bittorent when he was 26yrs old.
Justin Frankel was 22yrs old when he wrote gnutella with Tom who was 25yrs old.
I mention these systems, because these were apps that needed to operate at scale.
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- rafiki6 8y agoAnd they all leveraged some incredible pieces of infrastructure that were built up for them over several years by those with more experience, the primary examples being the Linux Socket library and the TCP/IP protocol. Building an application that can "scale" doesn't mean it's well built. Modern software engineering sits on the shoulders of giants, especially older ones who came out of research labs.
- pjmlp 8y agoYes, yet I wonder how good they would stand if someone did a proper Software Engineer review of their architecture and code quality.
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- gfs78 8y agoAs other people stated: they build standing from the shoulder of the giants. And even if they had started from zero, these guys are the exception, not the norm. We can find 20 year-old geniuses in every camp.
- tashoecraft 8y agoI'd be interested in a field where someone wasn't standing on the shoulders of giants.
- TripleCrown 8y agoHorse racing?