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I don’t see any of them play an
if err != nil { return err }so they can’t be all that smart now, can theythe world would've been a better place if pike never got goog to greenlight his third attempt at neophp
He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted
circa '06 my then-boss wanted me to "implement sawzall for mailserver logs"
(I was extremely green at the time and I've since wondered whether that was one of my first gartner quadrant moments)
I should also note that this place was xen on gentoo on refurb p3s. it involved adventures with gluster and nfsv3 and almost-all-the-docs-were-still-russian nginx imap/pop proxies and... fun times
(I did learn a fair deal there. foremost among what I learned was how willing someone would be to pay me dogshit money if they could get away with it)