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Startups only, you say?

Everything, everywhere, is held together by ducttape!




True. I watched a 60 year old manufacturing plant shut down for 7 days once because someone saved an excel spreadsheet in the wrong format and it deleted a macro written more than a decade prior that held together all of their operations planning.


At my current project we have components which are literally called `duct-tape` and `glue`.




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