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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by jimbokun on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:10AM (#26037119)
This is very interesting, and maybe sheds light on why Google decided not to hire Max. There seems to be some consensus that MacPorts has the better architecture, while Homebrew has been better at responding to users, even according to Max himself.

For Google, it's likely the former is more important than the latter for a lot of their projects. An architecture that doesn't scale or doesn't always do the right thing or sometimes messes up data, can be catastrophic at the scale of Google.

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by hombre_fatal on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:42AM (#26038203)
> maybe sheds light on why Google decided not to hire Max.

This is the sort of myths we hold about interviews. That the company is doing such deep dive on us that they are reading our Github commits and considering the trade-offs of MacPorts vs. Homebrew architecture.

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by jgwil2 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:01PM (#26047819)
I promise you that Homebrew is operating "at scale." Considering that Google hires many kids straight out of school who have never built any significant real-world software at all, I think this hypothesis is highly unlikely.
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by lawnchair_larry on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:33PM (#26043880)
> There seems to be some consensus that MacPorts has the better architecture

There isn’t, Homebrew is far superior in my opinion, and everyone I know using a Mac. We all left MacPorts ages ago.

It’s safe to say that has nothing to do with him not getting the job.

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