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Occam's Razor: Did he really make up a strange claim that reflects negatively on his employer, or was something very much like what he said actually part of his
by nudq 7y ago
Occam's Razor: Did he really make up a strange claim that reflects negatively on his employer, or was something very much like what he said actually part of his brief?
I believe it was the latter, the twist being that it was forward looking, not reflecting then-current reality. It was likely someone else's prediction that the quality of talent available to Google will go down, going forward.
- darkpuma 7y agoThe quote in question: > "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." Full context: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/From-Parallel-to-Concurrent http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...