The Friendship That Made Google Huge
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
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#2Site's down for me. Archive link: http://archive.is/w4oWL
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#3This is a wonderfully told story of two very senior engineers who developed a lifelong friendship and wrote some of the core of the Google search engine I use countless times per day - I really enjoyed this piece.
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#4"Jeff Dean once shifted a bit so hard it ended up on another computer."
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#5I'm so glad this this article (unlike so many other representations of Jeff and Sanjay's work) does not overlook Sanjay's contributions.
I don't know what it is; maybe Sanjay is a weird (read: non-English) name, maybe it's that computing culture's obsession with lone hackers leaves no room for a partnership like Jeff and Sanjay's. Anyway, kudos to the New Yorker for not falling into that trap.
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#6“In terms of sexiness, compilers are pretty much as boring as it gets,”
That bit surprised me. For me it doesn't get much sexier than compilers.
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#7these are the kind of articles i like reading, well written, interesting subject and good content length. Too many times i read bold headlines on HN, "Why X is bringing america down", then go to read it and just when they get to the crux of the matter i find the article has ended smh.
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#8Good stuff. Every sport has great partnerships (Jordon - Pippen, Brady - Gronk) and I always wondered if such a thing would even be possible in SE as I've felt overly self conscious and inefficient while pair programming.
Though what really makes this my favorite long read of the year is how it follows their story over the course of Google's rise and the subtle juxtapositions between early Google of "doors across sawhorses" and today with "Level 0-11". Given all the recent news with engineer walkouts and protests it makes you realize that Google have probably done the best job of handling the scaling challenges of being a unicorn and making the necessary cultural adjustments as they grew in size.
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#9What a lovely profile. I worked at Google early enough that I got to know Jeff and Sanjay, although never worked directly with them (to my regret). Every aspect of this article rings true to me, the way they are, the way they work together. I always admired how incredibly collaborative they were. They never competed with each other. Or really with anyone else, either, they just quietly did excellent work and helped others do their work too.
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#10Great article. Glad to see Sanjay get the credit he deserves.