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Greatbacon
Apr 9, 2012

by Pragmatica

Xoidanor posted:

Wouldn't that serve no actual purpose beyond saving space?

Pied piper is a loving compression algorithm, saving space (and bandwidth) is what it was designed to do.

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Greatbacon
Apr 9, 2012

by Pragmatica

Last Chance posted:

I just love the way Stephen Tobolowsky says "What?! No! God no!!" to Richard

I'm a little behind, but I just got to this part and fell out of my chair laughing, rewound, and laughed again.

It's just the perfect summation of startup scaleout (like my last company :()

edit: And the loving thing all the sales people do where they say their name before they speak like they're on a loving business call :beerpal:

Greatbacon fucked around with this message at 05:21 on May 10, 2016

Greatbacon
Apr 9, 2012

by Pragmatica

Red Oktober posted:

And then you end up promising a full time member of staff to work on site...

And the the client starts wanting little "one-off" additions to the platform that none of your other clients wants and your engineers didn't anticipate so to meet the deadline you have two code bases to manage on top of diverse deployment...

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