Here is an interesting look at some of the well-known companies –Â What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?
The article gets into some of the common criteria, which I’ll briefly list here:
I’ve read this story a while ago, but this is a beautiful piece of the system administration reality, so here it goes again.
“We’re having a problem sending email out of the department.”
“What’s the problem?” I asked.
“We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,” the chairman explained.
I choked on my latte. “Come again?”
“We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,” he repeated. “A
little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.”
More stories here.
Git tips from the trenches – doesn’t matter how many times I read git tips from around the web, it seems, every time I find something new.  This time, ‘git blame’ tips and commit notes were useful.
Linux.com reminds us that git is celebrating its 10th birthday this year. Â An interview with git creator Linus Torvalds sheds some light on to how and why it happened, and how long it took.
You can actually see how it all took shape in the git source code repository, except for the very first day or so. It took about a day to get to be “self-hosting” so that I could start committing things into git using git itself, so the first day or so is hidden, but everything else is there. The work was clearly mostly during the day, but there’s a few midnight entries and a couple of 2 a.m. ones. The most interesting part is how quickly it took shape ; the very first commit in the git tree is not a lot of code, but it already did the basics – enough to commit itself. The trick wasn’t really so much the coding but coming up with how it organizes the data.
So I’d like to stress that while it really came together in just about ten days or so (at which point I did my first *kernel* commit using git), it wasn’t like it was some kind of mad dash of coding. The actual amount of that early code is actually fairly small, it all depended on getting the basic ideas right.
Very impressive!
And, of course: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIT! Â The world is a much better place with you.