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by sharun 3351 days ago
It's like the Engineering teams at Google and Facebook have never heard of Microsoft or Sun or Adobe. There are so many lessons (learnt the hard way) in the evolution of .NET, Java and Flash that these guys seem to be completely oblivious too.

Google, Facebook devs please go spend some time with the language and platform greybeards at Microsoft.

EDIT: Feels like Software Engineering needs a set of Software History textbooks to keep reminding us of what has already been built.
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axiomabsolute 3351 days ago
To be fair, I'm pretty sure some of the engineers at Google and Facebook have spent some time with the language and platform graybeards at Microsoft, Sun, or Adobe. Some of them are those "graybeards" (in quotes, because they don't literally have gray beards). [1]

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)

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chillacy 3351 days ago
Any specific examples? Nodejs seems like it's managed to avoid the early java mistakes of XML everywhere and one-thread-per-request servers.
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