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"IT companies" like Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud are the ones driving technical conversations and advancing the state of the art. Banks, ins
by sagichmal 12y ago
"IT companies" like Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud are the ones driving technical conversations and advancing the state of the art. Banks, insurance companies, and retail outfits aren't, and haven't been for a decade or more.
- pjmlp 12y agoExcept that Banks, insurance companies, and retail outfits is where the real money is. Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud are for engineeers living in Silicon Valey.
- cmelbye 12y agoI can't tell if you're trolling or serious. Retail is where the money is, but Amazon, a Seattle-based company, is for engineers living in Silicon Valley? How is the sector at all relevant? (Software is eating the world, and all that.)
- Zikes 12y agoWalmart and Sam's Club are both actively developing in Go.
- pjmlp 12y agoI am serious, just didn't bother to check where their HQ are located. Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud and a few others are pointed out in HN as enterprise examples, and they are. However outside the HN bubble, which I tend to associate with SV, the enterprise looks a bit different. It is those Fortune 1000 companies, most of which don't have software as main goal, are happy to outsource anywhere in the world, still run mainframes and commercial UNIX systems, have rigid processes in place and so on. This is the enterprise I know from 20 years in the business. Amazon et all might be the modern enterprise, but they are a very tiny piece of the pie for anyone working on IT around the globe.
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