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> this seems slightly amateurish for a company with so much cash

I know there are people here who probably have been in the start-up space for all of their working life, but never underestimate how piss poor architecture can be at big companies.

I would place a large amount of money that every single person here who has done a stint at a large corporation has a horror story about terrible, awful architecture, outdated practices, and shoddy insecure software. And yes, that includes companies like Facebook, Google, etc.




Case in point: http://bugreporter.apple.com still reflects the UI style of OS X 10.0


  > I know there are people here who probably have been in the start-up space for all of their working life, but never underestimate how piss poor architecture can be at big companies.
Systems that are over 5/10/etc years old and are part of a multi-million/billion dollar system even more so.

  > who has done a stint at a large corporation has a horror story about terrible, awful architecture, outdated practices, and shoddy insecure software.
My god that rings so true. ;_;




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