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Google has been heavily pushing Go internally for a while now. They have weekly pamphlets that they put up in bathroom stalls to educate employees.
by wting 14y ago
Google has been heavily pushing Go internally for a while now. They have weekly pamphlets that they put up in bathroom stalls to educate employees.
- shawn-butler 14y agoReally? Can you get some pictures of that?
- wting 14y agoI don't work at Google, but toured their Austin office during a hackathon. A friend confirmed that they did as well for their Mountain View campus.
- gandalfar 14y agoTheir blog post on 'Testing on the toilet' - http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2008/08/tott-100-and-counting.html http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2008/08/tott-100-and-count...
- rachelbythebay 14y agoI took one last month. It's one of the "learning on the loo" variety, mentioned elsewhere. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/11/17/g/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/11/17/g/
- shawn-butler 14y agoThanks, yeah I knew of that kind of fortune-cookie silliness. Using it to promote awareness or learning the fundamentals of a programming language is something else entirely.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago> They have weekly pamphlets that they put up in bathroom stalls to educate employees There's something slightly creepy about that... oO;
- nostrademons 14y agoYou've never visited a Google restroom before? The practice started with "Testing on the Toilet", which was a way to educate developers about unit-testing best practices. (This was back in 2005 or 2006, when Google very much had a cowboy-coding culture and a lot of products were just thrown over the wall for users to perpetually beta-test.) Then we got "Learning on the Loo", which is general life-hacking tips that started in 2010. I forget the official title of the Go series, but a friend and I were joking that it should be called "Going to the bathroom."
- leif 14y ago"You've never visited a google restroom before?" It may surprise you to learn that most people haven't.
- daniel-cussen 14y ago"Go, Go, Go..."
- andrewflnr 14y agoWhen did that start? I don't remember seeing any this summer when I interned with them.
- wting 14y agoDon't know, I saw them in September.
- andrewflnr 14y agoI left in August. They must have started right after.