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I know I promised I'd blog once a week, but they killed Simone and now I'm just incredibly distraught. How could they? So I guess I'll recycle some stuff from my internal Google blog, from my first few weeks there, about 20 months ago. Blatant self-plagiarism. What's the blogosphere coming to?
I figured I'd publish it so you know what it was like for me as a newcomer at Google. In case you
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There seems to be a long period of initial obscurity for any new language. Then after that comes a long period of semi-obscurity, followed by total obscurity.
—Paul Bissex
Note: after I wrote this entry, one or two commenters speculated that I might be talking about something Google is doing. They're barking up the wrong tree: I may not be the smartest feller ever to fall off the cabbage
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A friend of mine on a neighboring team at Google presented me with an interesting math problem the other day. It went like this:
Friend: Hey Stevey!
Me: Uh, you know people don't actually call me that to my face, right? Only behind my back.
Friend: (cheerily) But you're Stevey! Look at your badge!
Me: Sigh. OK, fine already. What's this math problem?
Friend: Let's say there's this