Comment by latchkey

Comment by latchkey 11 hours ago

RIP PT. I can't tell you how much this piece of software changed my life. Working at Pivotal (the very early days of Cloud Foundry), taught me so much about how to develop software and products. It taught me how to work closely with people (pair programming for the win!). How to iterate and pay attention to velocity. How to write stories. How to polish a turd over time. I use these skills every single day.

You will be missed old friend. Nothing else comes close.

Dansvidania 9 hours ago

I heard this from other people that worked on Pivotal. Must have been a cool eng team.

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latchkey 7 hours ago

Some of the best people I've ever worked with. Still friends with many of them to this day.

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makk 9 hours ago

> How to polish a turd over time.

You mean iterating and pivoting.

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latchkey 6 hours ago

No, I mean taking a turd, which was the Cloud Foundry codebase that Pivotal inherited (aka purchased), and polishing it to be something that actually worked.
It is arguable if it was ever sufficiently polished, but at least we tried our best.

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