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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD

There was an anecdote from someone working at Microsoft in the early 2000s. The story says, Microsoft Office code due to legacy reasons stemming from the 90s was incredibly fragile and building it was a no easy feat. Office team had a bunch of carefully maintained build servers with carefully controlled version of Windows, MSVC compiler, and other software. Whenever a new build server was needed, they simply made a copy from an existing one (literally, copying the HDD contents) rather than install a system from scratch.

I heard this story from someone in my uni and I used to laugh at it, because surely having something like this today would be totally ludicrous. Now I see people use Docker and I don't laugh any more.

There was an anecdote from someone working at Microsoft in the early 2000s. The story says, Microsoft Office code due to legacy reasons stemming from the 90s was incredibly fragile and building it was a no easy feat. Office team had a bunch of carefully maintained build servers with carefully controlled version of Windows, MSVC compiler, and other software. Whenever a new build server was needed, they simply made a copy from an existing one (literally, copying the HDD contents) rather than install...

27 Oct 2023 at 19:32 | Open on mstdn.starnix.network
THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD

There are two kinds of programmers.

One kind does what the standard dictates and submits to it like it is a higher power.

The other applies home-made patches to compilers, adds custom language extensions via plugins, all of that to become closer to God.

25 Aug 2023 at 11:52 | Open on mstdn.starnix.network
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@icon_of_computational_sin there are 2 kinds of professional programmers.
those who don't try to make their life harder for no reason and those who have their first job.
25 Aug 2023 at 11:56 | Open on misinformation.wikileaks2.org
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