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Wow, different strokes indeed. Discovering that most of what I was supposed to do at google was going to consist of pushing protobufs from one place to another
by marssaxman 8y ago
Wow, different strokes indeed. Discovering that most of what I was supposed to do at google was going to consist of pushing protobufs from one place to another completely destroyed my enthusiasm for working there. I hated it!
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoI got bad news for you but almost all programming is just moving bytes from one place to another, and occasionally multiplying, adding, subtracting, or dividing some of them. ;)
- malkia 8y agoI wasn't expecting really to work on a next breakthrough algorithm, and such (although folks in my team actually worked on some incredible statistics related stuff - and this is where I understood I know nothing about statistics). Plenty for everyone, I think. I'm glad I was part of the experience! As an ex-game tools developer (back then, and back again - current job), it was quite a change for me. If I haven't learned enough, then at least seen things from quite different perspective.
- jamesfmilne 8y agoCome and work in the film industry, where you will also discover it is still mostly plumbing, moving data from one place to another. (Hello from another fellow Real Software alumnus :D)
- marssaxman 8y agoHi! That's a name I haven't seen in a while. :-) Oddly enough, I worked on film-industry data plumbing for a couple of years before I joined Real - a distributed, fibre-channel based file system called Centravision. Just looked it up and it's apparently still in use, two acquisitions later, under the name "StorNext"...