4 ms·

Along these lines, we have a joke at Google that all of our problems are just transforming one protocol buffer into another.

• feelix 11y ago
  And programming anything, or taking over the universe for that matter, is just a matter of the hitting the right keys on the keyboard in the right order.
  • ant6n 11y ago
    https://xkcd.com/722/ https://xkcd.com/722/
    • jonahx 11y ago
      And all human activity since the dawn of time is just using our bodies to move molecules from one place in space to another....
• sudo_bang_bang 11y ago
  "Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data." [1] Interesting, I figured Google was handling data serialization in their own way, and now I know[2] [1]https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview [2]https://github.com/google/protobuf https://github.com/google/protobuf
• QuercusMax 11y ago
  It's so true... I've only been at Google since the end of June and already have written a few proto converters. And teaching the super-newbies (i.e. fresh out of school) the difference between the frontend and backend protobufs...
  • ridiculous_fish 11y ago
    For what it's worth, I never encountered protobufs during my time at Google.