[IshKebab]

It's possible they told him but given that he admits he didn't know what a binary tree is it seems unlikely he did well at a Google coding interview, where I assume 90% of people know.

> But ultimately, should Google have hired me? Yes, absolutely yes. I am often a dick, I am often difficult, I often don’t know computer science, but. BUT. I make really good things, maybe they aren't perfect, but people really like them. Surely, surely Google could have used that.

Hmm so he fully admits that he made a bad package manager and is often a difficult dick. He sounds pretty arrogant too. I wouldn't have hired him.

And yes it is bad (try installing an old version of something). Just because it is popular doesn't mean it is good. It only ever had one competitor (ports) and that wasn't really Mac focused.

It's of no interest to Google that something bad you made happened to become popular. It's not like you can repeat that on demand.

Would you hire the person that wrote Bash? Or YAML?

[pseudalopex]

MacPorts is Mac focused. People liked Homebrew because it didn't take lots of time compiling its own copies of libraries the OS had already. But MacPorts got binary packages. And Homebrew gave up using OS libraries.

[falcor84]

I would hire Brian Fox, if I could afford him.