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> "([A-Z][a-z]+){7,} lang:java Yeah this one was my favorite of the code search examples, there are some really good ones in there.
Can you explain this? It looks to me like a regexp that searches Java source for words 7+ characters that start with a capital letter?
Is this article saying that all developer employees have access to the "holy" search algorithm internals? I can hardly believe that to be true, given the fact that SEO is a complete industry.
Looks like there is a Quora question that mentions this too: https://www.quora.com/How-many-Google-employees-can-read-acc...
Just because people are talking about it: I work at MSFT, and the numbers Wired quotes for the lines of code in Windows are not even close to being correct. Not even in the same order of magnitude. Their source claims that Windows XP has ~45 million lines of code. But that was 14 years ago. The last time Windows was even in the same order of magnitude as 50 million LOC was in the Windows Vista timeframe. EDIT: And, r…
What's the experience like for teams not running a Google service and instead interacting with external users and contributors, e.g. the Go compiler or Chrome.
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That's the same as saying "the same order of magnitude"
But while "1" and "9" are the same order of magnitude, so are "1" and "0.1". To say something is within an order of magnitude of netflix, you cover a possible range from 0.1 to 10 times the Netflix catalog, a range which is ten times bigger if you consider the minimum and maximum sizes...
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How is this a side effect of it being in the same repository/
Say I make a change to a commonly used library (let's say deprecating a function, and replacing it with another): * I can see literally _every use_ of the old function. * I can run the tests for everyone who uses that function. * * this is automated; the build/test tooling can figure out the transitive set of build/test targets that are affected by such a change. * I can (relatively) easily update _every use_ of the…
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Windows is slow? Compared to what? In what task? Running a game? Boot time? Opening Firefox? I have problems with Windows, but it's the fastest desktop os I think, mostly because it's graphics stack is way the best of all. Running a number crunching C code is exactly the same on Windows or Linux. (See all the benchmarks on the Internet.)
It's really not that fast. The filesystem is a total dog (MFT contention) to the point that manipulating lots of small file is up to two orders of magnitude slower than ext4. This is made bearable thanks to SSDs being on the market. Also the amount of friction getting stuff built and running and maintaining it is detrimental to general productivity meaning you piss execution time out of the window regularly just fixi…
Note: windows programmer for 19 years now. Only because of the cash.
Its interesting that they compare LoC with Windows. I suppose that this article wants us to be amazed at those numbers. However, my experience with Google's products indicates a gradual decline in performance and a simultaneous gradual increase in memory bloat (Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Android). Which ironically, FWIW, hasn't been the case with Windows. I have noticed zero difference in performance going from Windows 7 t…
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Well, you're the one here teasing everyone about it. Seems like it gives you a hard-on knowing something secret-ish. Pretty typical, I suppose. But please stop acting like you're the shit because you may know a number.
I agree. The corporate policy is to not disclose that number, so all that the parent comment translates to is an appeal to authority. "You're wrong because I work for Microsoft and I know better!". But we're not told what the correct number is, and we have no way of assessing the validity of the claim anyway, so the whole discussion is completely vacuous.