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Okay, think about why that might have happened. Clearly they're running their servers on legacy code. What does that code do? Well, probably... everything. At t
by ProjectArcturis 5y ago
Okay, think about why that might have happened. Clearly they're running their servers on legacy code. What does that code do? Well, probably... everything. At this point they've been building on it for decades, and nearly everyone who was there when it started has retired or died. So they have a huge, mission-critical business platform that no one truly understands. And everyone is afraid that minor changes could have horrible, unforeseen downstream consequences, so it probably just gets edited at the margins at this point.
If you're the CTO of Cisco, what do you do there? Do you risk your job and the continued existence of the company, spending God knows how many developer hours refactoring your codebase? Or do you just deal with 8-character email addresses?
- gitfan86 5y agoIf you are the CTO of Cisco you don't risk your job, because you put in 20 years kissing ass and climbing the corporate ladder, and at the end of the day you don't give a shit about e-mail servers running legacy code, you're here for the executive perks.
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoExactly. And if you're Elon Musk, you run amok like a bull in a china shop, breaking everything while chasing after whatever shiny object caught your eye recently.
- gitfan86 5y agoYou would prefer that we have more executives that don't get things done and instead focus on not getting fired? The Climate change situation would be better off if we didn't have Tesla disrupting the status quo on EVs? Rural and Emergency responders and the Ukrainian civilians would be better off if Starlink didn't exist?