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Was I the only one who was thinking: "Jeez, I've seen some of the code that runs these complex systems, and the really amazing thing is that they ever worked at
by dos1 15y ago
Was I the only one who was thinking: "Jeez, I've seen some of the code that runs these complex systems, and the really amazing thing is that they ever worked at all!" :)
- barrkel 15y agoNo, everybody thinks that. I'm strongly reminded of my commentary on Ryan Dahl's rant a few weeks ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3056534 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3056534 - "Everybody can look at a simple thing like a submit form in a web browser, and sigh at the inefficiencies in the whole stack of getting what they type at the keyboard onto the wire in TCP frames, the massive amount of work and edifices of enormous complexity putting together the tooling and build systems and source control and global coordination of teams and the whole lot of it, soup to nuts, into a working system to do the most trivial of work."