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Re:Watching an acquirer ruin your company by danielmarkbruce on Saturday July 02, 2022 @11:11PM (#31964715)
At google it was repeated that Sergey Brin used to say "all work is throwaway work, it's only the time horizon which is in question".
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Re:Watching an acquirer ruin your company by cwillu on Saturday July 02, 2022 @11:27PM (#31964783)
It's kind trite to say “much is explained”, but… that explains so much about google.
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Re:Watching an acquirer ruin your company by danielmarkbruce on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:00AM (#31964938)
It doesn't really. There is plenty of old code at google, he was just saying it to people who were too scared of doing work they might need to throw away.

The promotion process explains way more of what I think you are getting at.

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Re:Watching an acquirer ruin your company by ratww on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:17AM (#31967136)
Throwing away code and throwing away products/features are completely different things, and only one of those is a real problem for end users.
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