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I believe Udi Manber works in Search or online something or other, and not Apps. There are 10,000 engineers (in varying capacities) at Google, who have all don
by litewulf 17y ago
I believe Udi Manber works in Search or online something or other, and not Apps.
There are 10,000 engineers (in varying capacities) at Google, who have all done lots of disparate and random things. Sometimes, by sheer stroke of luck, people will happen to have already done something, but due to size, it will simply be reinvented.
- cperciva 17y agoI didn't say that Udi Manber was directly involved in this project -- but that doesn't mean that his presence at Google didn't contribute. Firefox uses bsdiff, and I know Chrome people have looked at it; it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they saw the name "Udi Manber" in my thesis, said "hey, we've heard of that guy", and were consequentially encouraged to replicate his approach (well, his student's approach, technically) to the problem.
- litewulf 17y agoSure, thats reasonable. I think I'm just a bit frustrated by the "so and so works at Google, therefore they must have chosen technology X or approach Y because of their presence!" when its very hard to know what everyone in (or formerly at) Google has ever worked on and remember to call them up.