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A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy. (medium.com)
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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You're the other person that used RTC?! I had heard there was another but I was starting to think it was just a legend.

I migrated an entire codebase from a combo of RCS, CVS, and Subversion. This was about 10 minutes before git started to hit in a big way.

I'd call it a dumpster fire but that really disrespects dumpster fires.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You mean it was worse than Microsoft Source Safe? The VCS that used to lose data?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Source Safe just attempted to be a useless source control system. RTC tried to add issue tracking, automation, and other crap. It wanted to be truly terrible at everything.

    But Source Safe was fantastically bad. I especially liked that its database file was limited to like 2GB. It was so bad that Microslop didn't use it.

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