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Re:Google lays off its Python team by fragmede on Saturday April 27, 2024 @03:56PM (#40182944)
That really doesn't jive with this description of how much they were doing. Let me guess, this mythical two person team could also build Twitter and Uber over a weekend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338

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Re:Google lays off its Python team by madaxe_again on Saturday April 27, 2024 @04:58PM (#40183486)
Your point notwithstanding, Twitter was originally built by a two person team over couple of weeks.
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Re:Google lays off its Python team by fragmede on Saturday April 27, 2024 @05:14PM (#40183619)
That's interesting, but two people over a couple of weeks isn't the same as one person claiming they could build it over one weekend.
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Re:Google lays off its Python team by throwaway5959 on Saturday April 27, 2024 @09:05PM (#40185063)
They built a prototype (probably in Rails, lol). Thousands of people built Twitter, including many who have never written a line of code in their lives.
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Re:Google lays off its Python team by madaxe_again on Sunday April 28, 2024 @04:00AM (#40186879)
Really, no shit, I thought it was one guy and his cat who did all the coding for everything
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