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What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie?

Posted by Roblimo on from the how-many-miles-of-cable-do-you-think-they-buy-every-year? dept.

We'd like to welcome Google Director of Technology Craig Silverstein as our next Slashdot interview victim... err... guest. You think you run a big Linux server farm? Craig's is bigger. Think your Web site gets a lot of traffic and creates a lot of headaches? Just think what Craig must face! Post whatever you'd like to ask Craig below, one question per post. About 24 hours after this runs we'll email Craig 10 of the highest-moderated questions, and we'll post his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.

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  1. First Question! by Dannon · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can I have a job?

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  2. Pigeon Computing by Black+Aardvark+House · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has there been any progress on the Pigeon Computing initiative?

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  3. I got one by bravehamster · · Score: 2, Funny
    Who gets to clean up after the pigeons?

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  4. Forget Craig by Talisman · · Score: 4, Funny

    No offense to Mr. Silverstein, but I'm much more interested in Cindy! Beautiful, highly successful nerds are terribly rare!

    Just so I'm not off-topic:

    Mr. Silverstein, how does Cindy look in tight sweaters?

    Drool...

    Talisman

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    1. Re:Forget Craig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nice try, Cindy.

  5. My question by SlashdotTroll · · Score: 1, Funny


    What is the air velocity of an un-laden Eatern-European Swallow?

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  6. Re:Stumped by ralmeida · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just pictured Google engineers turning to Google to fix some kind of problem that they might have... if we could kill the middleman, Google would achieve consciousness!

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  7. Newsgroups by scott1853 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've made some really stupid posts to the newgroups in the past and I used my real name. Can you delete them for me?

    1. Re:Newsgroups by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Absolutely. What was your name again? We'll also need your username and password, and your SSN for transitive co-location identification.

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  8. Pigeons! Re:Simple question by ilyag · · Score: 2, Funny

    They have already answered that one...

    ;)

  9. Not infinitely recursive? by dmarien · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why can't I find a cache'd version of this page anywhere? if the live cache'd version goes down, and there's no cache'd cache'd version, whatever will we do? :)

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  10. Re:OT .sig comment by killmenow · · Score: 2, Funny

    78% of statistics are made up on the spot ;^)

  11. My question... by Kickstart70 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the root password?

    :)

    Kickstart

  12. Does he ever feel lucky? by Newer+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well...does he?

  13. Re:That's a good question, My question is: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Is there anything on the internet that you personally couldn't find with google and if so what was it?

    I once used Google to search for "porn" and didn't find anything ;)

  14. Slashdotted? by gafferted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can I have a prize for slashdotting google?

  15. The real question on everyones mind by Narkov · · Score: 2, Funny

    A/S/L?