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."

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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?