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Google is like grad-school. People value working on hard problems, and doing them right. Things are pretty polished, the code is usually solid[...] Wow, that s
by georgecmu 16y ago
Google is like grad-school. People value working on hard problems, and doing them right. Things are pretty polished, the code is usually solid[...]
Wow, that sounds nothing like grad school. Or any research environment, for that matter.
- angstrom 16y agoYeah really. Does that mean the code is littered with "Left as an exercise for the reader."?
- sliverstorm 16y agoIn this case, the "reader" being the compiler?
- arethuza 16y agoI'd agree with that - I remember a control engineer telling me that the "clever" bit of systems was actually implemented in about 1% of the code. All the rest of the stuff was boring as he was concerned, but was the bit that was actually necessary to make stuff work in messy industrial environments. In an academic research environment you only worry about that 1% - the rest is irrelevant to getting something published. [NB I worked in academic research for six years - mostly on engineering related topics]