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I've never heard anyone in my life say they could rebuild MS office in a weekend. What, in your opinion, would be the work needed to go from a 100k monthly act
by abraae 7y ago
I've never heard anyone in my life say they could rebuild MS office in a weekend.
What, in your opinion, would be the work needed to go from a 100k monthly active user site to a wikipedia scale site - that would be comparable to rebuilding MS office?
- ivan_gammel 7y agoThat seems indeed comparable given the scope and functionality of Wikimedia products.
- z3t4 7y agoThe core parts of Office could be done on a weekend, but in order to get the same complexity and incompatibility it would take several "codemonkeys" several years to achieve.
- journalctl 7y agoSilly Microsoft wasted hundreds of people and decades of time. Why didn’t you tell them?
- z3t4 7y agoSoftware projects are usually 90% done in 1% of total time taken. And if you just solve the problem with duct tape eg. a shell script, like piping stdin to a file, or contenteditable=true in HTML, you would have a very basic word program, and if you take that route you will probably have the essential features done over a weekend. But going from that to a full Office clone would take years. The real challenge in development though is to solve real problems, eg not make solutions looking for a problem, and not implement new features ( implementing only features that solve real problems).
- rhizome 7y agoI've never heard anyone in my life say they could rebuild MS office in a weekend. The saying usually uses Facebook or Twitter.