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How to build everything yourself

Not Invented Here == Wet Garbage

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David Tate
Aug 11, 2025
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Have you heard that the Excel team has their own C compiler? Or that Amazon has their own version of Linux? How about Dropbox building their own cloud infrastructure and moving off of AWS S3?

These le…

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