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> So she used a compression algorithm developed by other googlers? Yes. > So what? So she saved 1.5PB per day - which no other Googler did. Nor you or me. Sh

> So she used a compression algorithm developed by other googlers? Yes. > So what? So she saved 1.5PB per day - which no other Googler did. Nor you or me. She did. > Don't get me wrong, I'm sure she did a lot of work for it, but looks like a lot of people would have been able to do that, there is nothing innovative in what she did, right? If it was that easy, why wasn't done already? Why did she have to come along to do it? You are confusing easy to implement with easy to come up with the idea. In hindsight it is a no-brainer, but somehow the almighty Google didn't do in years of Play Store. Go figure, right? P.S.: Please support your downvotes with a reply.

ng12 10y ago
What makes you think she came up with the idea? Read the article -- it's clear that it was her "project". She's an intern at Google, they're generally on a short leash.
- rocky1138 10y ago
  > they're generally on a short leash How do you know that?
  - ng12 10y ago
    Many friends who had gone there. It was one of the reasons I turned them down. It's just part of being a large tech company -- they get hordes of interns and generally want to get something out of them in a short period of time. Most are explicitly attached to one or two projects which can be completed in ~2 months.
- NetStrikeForce 10y ago
  > What makes you think she came up with the idea? It might have not been her sole idea or even her idea, I'll give you that. However there's no evidence it was not her idea of partly her idea. > Read the article Please, this is the kind of comment not welcomed here. I did read the article before commenting. You are trying very hard to read between the lines, when Google is claiming once and again that her work saved 1.5PB/day - I'm not sure why will you try so hard to read a hidden message in Google's words and dismiss what's written in plain English. > it's clear that it was her "project". So what? See my previous paragraph. > She's an intern at Google, they're generally on a short leash. Generally or always? In the US or in Europe? It was the second time she was interning at Google (it's in the article). Again, you are trying very hard to read between the lines and guess. This engineer did something that saved users 1.5PB/day. She did, no one else did. Other people did other stuff. To each their own - I'm not sure why do we have to downplay her achievement though. P.S.: This is the kind of shit women have to put up with constantly. It might look like it's not important, but when you have to go through this every day it takes a toll on you. The worst part is that we don't even want to acknowledge it.
  - ng12 10y ago
    > Please, this is the kind of comment not welcomed here Oh, come on. I'm not being facetious. The wording in the article is "work", "project" not "idea" or "initiative" -- which frankly would have been the article I was expecting to read. The article isn't even about her, by word count it's mostly about Brotli. There's nothing in the article to suggest that this was anything outside the realm of day-to-day software engineering. > This is the kind of shit women have to put up with constantly. Why are you bringing gender into this? I don't care what her biological sex is. I care that the original HN title made it sound like an interesting article about storage or service architecture and instead it was just "Google intern successfully uses existing Google library".
danellis 10y ago
They had to wait for someone to design and implement the compression algorithm before they could have an intern swap it out.
- NetStrikeForce 10y ago
  And they had to wait for people to invent computers so you could do your job; still you get praised for doing good stuff that no one else in your company does :)
Klockan 10y ago
From the article: "Anamaria’s project was to add support for Brotli for both new app installs and app updates." So someone else told her to do it, if she wasn't there some other intern would have made the same savings.
- NetStrikeForce 10y ago
  I'm not sure how that says "someone else told her to do it", but even if it was true, the point still stands: She did it, no one else did. You didn't, I didn't. If other intern would have did it, then we would be having the same conversation about that other intern.

ng12 10y ago

What makes you think she came up with the idea? Read the article -- it's clear that it was her "project". She's an intern at Google, they're generally on a short leash.

rocky1138 10y ago
> they're generally on a short leash How do you know that?
- ng12 10y ago
  Many friends who had gone there. It was one of the reasons I turned them down. It's just part of being a large tech company -- they get hordes of interns and generally want to get something out of them in a short period of time. Most are explicitly attached to one or two projects which can be completed in ~2 months.
NetStrikeForce 10y ago
> What makes you think she came up with the idea? It might have not been her sole idea or even her idea, I'll give you that. However there's no evidence it was not her idea of partly her idea. > Read the article Please, this is the kind of comment not welcomed here. I did read the article before commenting. You are trying very hard to read between the lines, when Google is claiming once and again that her work saved 1.5PB/day - I'm not sure why will you try so hard to read a hidden message in Google's words and dismiss what's written in plain English. > it's clear that it was her "project". So what? See my previous paragraph. > She's an intern at Google, they're generally on a short leash. Generally or always? In the US or in Europe? It was the second time she was interning at Google (it's in the article). Again, you are trying very hard to read between the lines and guess. This engineer did something that saved users 1.5PB/day. She did, no one else did. Other people did other stuff. To each their own - I'm not sure why do we have to downplay her achievement though. P.S.: This is the kind of shit women have to put up with constantly. It might look like it's not important, but when you have to go through this every day it takes a toll on you. The worst part is that we don't even want to acknowledge it.
- ng12 10y ago
  > Please, this is the kind of comment not welcomed here Oh, come on. I'm not being facetious. The wording in the article is "work", "project" not "idea" or "initiative" -- which frankly would have been the article I was expecting to read. The article isn't even about her, by word count it's mostly about Brotli. There's nothing in the article to suggest that this was anything outside the realm of day-to-day software engineering. > This is the kind of shit women have to put up with constantly. Why are you bringing gender into this? I don't care what her biological sex is. I care that the original HN title made it sound like an interesting article about storage or service architecture and instead it was just "Google intern successfully uses existing Google library".

danellis 10y ago

They had to wait for someone to design and implement the compression algorithm before they could have an intern swap it out.

NetStrikeForce 10y ago
And they had to wait for people to invent computers so you could do your job; still you get praised for doing good stuff that no one else in your company does :)

Klockan 10y ago

From the article: "Anamaria’s project was to add support for Brotli for both new app installs and app updates." So someone else told her to do it, if she wasn't there some other intern would have made the same savings.

NetStrikeForce 10y ago
I'm not sure how that says "someone else told her to do it", but even if it was true, the point still stands: She did it, no one else did. You didn't, I didn't. If other intern would have did it, then we would be having the same conversation about that other intern.