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It would be interesting to know what the author thinks of these developments, and whether they could revive his personal faith. "Erann Gat" and "Ron Garret" ar
by civil 16y ago
It would be interesting to know what the author thinks of these developments, and whether they could revive his personal faith.
"Erann Gat" and "Ron Garret" are the same person; you find him on c.l.l. regularly since 2004.
- nostrademons 16y agoHe's also occasionally on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lisper http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lisper
- didip 16y agoIs he that Ron, the xoogler, who was forced to use Java on AdWords? Edit: Yup. http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html So I was a little disappointed when I found out on day 1 that I had been assigned to the ads group. But that disappointment turned to dismay when I learned what my assignment was to be: I was the lead engineer on a new advertising system code named "adstoo", what eventually became AdWords. That part wasn't so bad. The bad part was, this was going to be the inaugural Java project at Google. Google, which had until now been a Java-free zone (which was one of the reasons I took the job) was going for Java in a big way, and I, the consummate Java hater, was supposed to be its chief evangelist. Just peachy.
- nipra 16y agohttp://www.flownet.com/gat/eg-rg-faq.html http://www.flownet.com/gat/eg-rg-faq.html