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The Friendship That Made Google Huge (newyorker.com)
Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company -- and the Internet. An anonymous reader writes: The New Yorker has profiled Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, two of Google's most storied developers and to date, the company's only Senior Fellows, the highest level Google awards to engineers. The article dives into some of Dean and Ghemawat's successes at Google but focuses on their deep and collaborative friendship -- particularly exploring the power of programming with a partner. "I don't know why more people don't do it," Ghemawat explains. As Dean points out, all you need to do is "find someone that you're gonna pair-program with who's compatible with your way of thinking, so that the two of you together are a complementary force."
called 'The astronaut's wife'
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When you're willing to work 90 hour weeks, you had _better_ shine above everyone else. Smart people, long hours, and being left alone to do deep thinking. Working together helps, but it's not the whole story.
I bet it wasnt rust they used for such a thing. Otherwise a nice article to read some other time maybe. I cannot wait to see what my selp helf elf is bringing me for Christmas
That should be modded up funny, because it is!
Anyway, if a pair of programmers is good, imagine a Beowulf Cluster of them!
I knew pair programming was the source of all evil.
Maybe first, make it possible for a pair of people to interview for a position, and *then* if people don't take advantage of it you could wonder why?
Self help elf? Is that what you're calling your left hand?
Your mouth.
Wah, everything I don't like is "elites"... Waaaah... https://www.newsweek.com/lot-republicans-think-trump-wont-finish-term-1251056
All you gotta do is meat your soul mate then it all clicks
They gave me the wrong size just like every time
So you're taking the rhetorical position that Sarah Palin IS NOT a cunt? Really, how honest are we being about this? You're saying Palin represented the poor? Are you some kind of retarded halfwit or something?
'I was just following orders'
Nope, that's passe.
Now I wear a "Trump is a dick" T-shirt, featuring the mushroom character in Mario Kart.
Right, no much competition when the world is filled with dumbfucks like you.
They did not offer the correct size anyway. That size was youth youth
I hope you are aware that you can incite violence against very nice actual Jewish people when you post this nasty drivel
I hope you realize nothing in it says kill/hurt jews. They do themselves in by their beliefs/practices. It's not all jews either. Read it. Deny it if possible. I never see that happen. Tough to deny undeniable fact jews history, members, and very talmudic beliefs state, isn't it?
You can tell that to your likely to be Jewish lawyer when you get charged with manslaughter from ruling up skinheads. He (likely a he) will likely defend you anyway but to each his own
As Dean points out, all you need to do is "find someone that you're gonna pair-program with who's compatible with your way of thinking, so that the two of you together are a complementary force."
Is that all? No. First, you need to find a great match for pair-programming which is already hard enough. But you need to find one who is nearby (this doesn't work all that well remotely), and who happens to work at the same company or startup or whatever, on the same team or on the same or similar assignments. Or you need to already have that coding partner and have the luxury to pick your own employer and assignment together, have the time and energy to work together on some FOSS thing, or be in a position to found your own startup. So no, I am not at all surprised that not many people end up doing this.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Ah yes. Threats. The juden way. Coercion by empty threats. You were asked to prove what's in that post wrong. You can't. Fact is like that. Fact jews themselves supply no less.
It's a terrible idea and sucks badly unless you're that kind of person, and also find that perfect partner. In nearly all cases that I've seen and experienced, pair programming just degenerates into endless discussions around philosophical differences and battles of egos, and with 2 people, there's also no one to tie-break.
For me at least, I've repeatedly found there's not any way to get the job done more quickly/effectively than just leaving me alone to get it done on my own.
Jews hiding facts from their history and religious cult beliefs by downmoderation only proving their reprehensible ways but not proving it wrong.
1) You are not a very bright person
or
2) You are not trying very hard.
Hooray for "us"! Look, a piece in the New Yorker, a publication entirely uncontaminated by coastal elitism, offering an accepting profile of the other coast's elites! How tolerant! How accepting of The Other! By the way, have you worn your "Sarah Palin is a Cunt" T-shirt recently? There's another class marker! Let's all - journalists and Silicon Valley millionaires - unite against the lower classes for insisting their interests be represented in government. After all "we're" all on the same team, amirite?
"Jeff Dean" and "Sanjay Ghemawat" sure don't sound like Jewish names to me. Dumbass troll is dumbass.
we'll know Google (or the antitrust breakup pieces of Google) is/are small enough again when they find that "don't do evil" is actually in their interest again.
They sound like jewgger and shitty sand monkey names.
Jewggers must be exterminated. Period.
Was the paper published b4 Git or are they dumbasses.
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That's the story summed up
There are many more incompatible pairings then compatible pairings.
Nah, they're just pointing out what ignorant, cowardly racist you are. It's almost comical how fucking stupid your remarks and propaganda posts are.
I live around a bunch of people like you here in rural MO. It's not uncommon to find shoddy racist graffiti around here, complete with misspelled slurs and improperly drawn swastikas...
Just out of curiosity, did you inherit your racist outlook or are you one of those "Born Again Racists" who bought into it while doing time and were too big of a pussy to stand up for yourself, so instead you got a pair S's tattooed to blend in with The Nation?
is going to bring down your Walhalla.
Pair programming only works if the combined knowledge of engineers might just be able to handle the problem that needs to be solved.
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Jeff Dean was a friend in high school and my roommate in college for a year. He's hardly a west coast elite, even now -- I had breakfast with him a year ago and he walked like 3 miles (his choice) to the restaurant.
He's also hands-down the smartest person I have ever met. He ported a multi-player D&D game written for a Control Data Cyber mainframe -- using an incomplete printout of the Pascal source code -- to a Sage IV p-system and the VAX 11/780 when he was in high school.
I thought you were going with brokeback mountain
That would explain why they're more successful than you.
Dude, you left out Charles Kushner and Milo Yiannopoulos.
This worked for me so therefore it must work for everyone else.
The worst part is that because these people have been successful they get the platform to say these things, yet it shows their lack of situational intelligence when they put out sound bites like they have without seeing the logical fallacy of their statements. They might be amazing coders and work well as a team but they clearly have an incredibly narrow view of the world, one where anyone can code like they can and their code would never be used for evil.
It would be like Usain Bolt saying "I dont know why more people dont run the 100m in under 10 seconds, all you have to do is find the right pair of shoes"