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They took some of the best brains, spoiled them with high salaries and glory and took their best years to make them work on dumb problems and projects that were
by ta988 3y ago
They took some of the best brains, spoiled them with high salaries and glory and took their best years to make them work on dumb problems and projects that were cancelled at various stages of their life.
- adrianmsmith 3y agoThose best brains did produce lots of interesting things, back in the day (not recently). The Google search algorithm, the ads auctioning system, Gmail, Golang, certain parts of Google Cloud like BigQuery (create relational tables, just stuff data in there, just scales by itself without "provisioning", write SQL queries including joins e.g. over hundreds of billions of rows...)
- unclebucknasty 3y agoDon't forget Google Wave. May 2010 - August 2010. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave