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comment by rjw
rjw  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Retake exam today

Yeah! Open source is great and all, but so much code exists inside organisations and there's no telling what kinds of methods they're using. I have a friend at Google who mentioned offhand that employees can sift through billions of lines of internal code. I wonder how much internal software itch-scratching has found totally novel methods of solving problems. I'm not sure if it's really possible to know.