Re:StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data
by gruez on Sunday August 04, 2019 @10:19PM
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>While I don't agree with the way he spoke, was C# one of the de facto or explicit in-house languages of the company, and Ruby was not? If so, he may have been referring to the fact that the company already had many libraries in C# that you could use. Plus, if C# was one of their areas of expertise, it's typically best to use that as opposed to a new, unfamiliar language unless you're explicitly testing out a new approach.
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>I don't think RoR is trash, but if you were starting a large program that would be used across multiple departments whose in-house language was C#, it was probably the right call to suggest switching to C#.
According to the parent comment, he was working at a startup that was in the "Quicken led start-up space". My interpretation is that Quicken was acting like an incubator, and he isn't working in quicken, and so the engineering teams are separate. Therefore I don't think organizational inertia applies here.
Re:StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data
by pgm8705 on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:59AM
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This is correct. Our company was under the Quicken "Family of Companies" umbrella, but we were a 5 person start-up building a web app unrelated to Quicken.
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>I don't think RoR is trash, but if you were starting a large program that would be used across multiple departments whose in-house language was C#, it was probably the right call to suggest switching to C#.
According to the parent comment, he was working at a startup that was in the "Quicken led start-up space". My interpretation is that Quicken was acting like an incubator, and he isn't working in quicken, and so the engineering teams are separate. Therefore I don't think organizational inertia applies here.