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Maybe the real treasure was the optimizations we made and discarded along the way.
by jgrahamc 2y ago
Maybe the real treasure was the optimizations we made and discarded along the way.
- DamonHD 2y agoIndeed. I am very happy with some of the tricks that I developed (speeding up, and indeed allowing, Solaris C++ linking by prefiltering on MD5 hashes of canonicalised .o files -> nm, anyone?) even though they were lost without trace (yep, Lehman Brothers, where are my Imakefiles now?)...
- jkaptur 2y agoThey're probably as critical as ever at Barclays :)
- DamonHD 2y agoI really hope not, given that that very old Solaris compiler should have been laid to rest many many years ago. Yes, some of my stuff had kinda made it into BarCap (even onto my desktop dev machine!) when I turned up there later, and even some at Nomura when I rocked up there again IIRC!
- alohashirt99 2y agoI recall working at a broker/dealer on Broadway where a curious sysadmin noticed a power cord that underneath an internal wall that fenced off "dead space." Said space turned out to contain a "forgotten" minicomputer living just outside a machine room. I recall returning to a bank and discovering that router and load balancer admin passwords hadn't changed in seven years..
- Twirrim 2y agoMy likely overly cynical concern here is that this suggests trie-hard will soon end up abandoned, as you're making it sound like it is a stop-gap solution for you.