AtariAge.com[1] - first created in 1988, or 25 years ago. Run by some bloke on the internet.
The problem for Google Groups is that no-one can perf-farm it any more, which is the sole reason for projects to survive at Google...
The problem for Google Groups is that no-one can perf-farm it any more, which is the sole reason for projects to survive at Google...
1988 was 35 years ago. I know, hard to believe... want to know something even more shocking?? People who are today 18 years old were born in 2005!
That’s absurd. I’m only 35 years old. 2005 can’t be that long ago.
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Damn…
<chuckle> (sorry!)
... but, like most soon-to-be-18-year-olds, you have no idea![0]
18 is nothing, but do try and enjoy it while you can :)
[0] just like me, way back when...
As an example, I recently checked the internal symbolization service at Google (that handles symbolization for C++ executables, which is in turn used for generating performance profiles and symbolizing things like stack traces generated by core dumps) and the team maintaining it was two people. And those people aren't solely maintaining the symbolization service, they're compiler engineers who spend most of their time working on other projects and spend a small amount of their time maintaining the symbolization service as issues come up or bugs are reported. But this isn't a problem. The symbolization service works and is basically feature complete. There's no reason to have a team of ten people actively working on it.
As long as it works, it is no problem. But given any larger change somewhere in the stack and management not being aware that these two folks have that side project, maybe they even left, and there will be problems.
Either a project has dedicated staff or it doesn't exist and just survives.
I don't know how critical groups internally are, but I assume with the general decline of e-mail compared to chat, video calls, etc. (insert joke about googles chat tools if you like ...) I would assume that this will be home less of relevance. Over time as well and drop more and more off.
Makes you feel really old.
Quite a bit closer!
That’s an interesting note, given that the Tie/X-wing fights were heavily inspired by WW2 dogfights, right? Can you imagine something that draws on the Gulf War similarly? It just seems wrong, too proximate to pull out purely aesthetic themes.
(I realised after I typed the above that the wikipedia disambiguation page also links to the Iran/Iraq war anyway)
Well, Jeff and Sanjay got to DE/Fellows this way, so this is a good role model. Unfortunately doesn’t scale.