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Tech companies are like lewdness, we know them when we see them. I’m sure Maersk and Walmart rely a lot on tech and engineers, but no one is calling them tech c
by digb 4y ago
Tech companies are like lewdness, we know them when we see them. I’m sure Maersk and Walmart rely a lot on tech and engineers, but no one is calling them tech companies.
- tomrod 4y agoWalmart is as tech as Amazon retail. There is a reason products have barcodes.
- billyhoffman 4y agoAnd that reason is IBM
- tomrod 4y agoIs it? I'd always heard Walmart was the first adopter of barcodes at scale. EDIT: TIL -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode On 20 October 1949, Woodland and Silver filed a patent application for "Classifying Apparatus and Method", in which they described both the linear and bull's eye printing patterns, as well as the mechanical and electronic systems needed to read the code. The patent was issued on 7 October 1952 as US Patent 2,612,994.[1] In 1951, Woodland moved to IBM and continually tried to interest IBM in developing the system. The company eventually commissioned a report on the idea, which concluded that it was both feasible and interesting, but that processing the resulting information would require equipment that was some time off in the future. IBM offered to buy the patent, but the offer was not accepted. Philco purchased the patent in 1962 and then sold it to RCA sometime later.
- phpnode 4y agoDoes it matter? The relevant part (to most of us) is whether they're laying off engineers. Almost any company is a tech company these days