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igouy on March 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Give Me Back My Monolith

It's a different story when you have 3 or 4 code librarians responsible for a repository that's used by a dozen teams (ENVY/Developer).

> … relationship to the rest … insular Smalltalk community…

Perhaps not the image per se, so much as the ability to change anything and everything.

Every developer could play god; and they did.

stcredzero on March 14, 2019 [–]

Every developer could play god; and they did.

Turns out that not every god is as wise and as benevolent as every other god.

igouy on March 14, 2019 | [–]

That's exactly the point!

There were awesome people who did awesome stuff; and there were others — unprepared to be ordinary.

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