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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by yongjik on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:03AM (#26473204)
I have no idea how great a developer Howell is, but it's simply not true that Homebrew was used by many Google employees. I was at Google at that time (2015), had a macbook for several years, and had never even heard of Homebrew.

Google is a linux shop, and you were generally not allowed to even keep the source code in your notebook.

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by top_kekeroni_m8 on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:27AM (#26590794)
Where would one keep the source code then - if not locally?
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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by yongjik on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:56PM (#26637095)
Either in a desktop sitting securely under your desk at office, or "in the cloud". You would remotely connect to them to do your development. (Most of Google binaries I saw were way too heavy to run on a Macbook, anyway.) Macbooks were just for checking email, calendar, or similar stuff.
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