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alexr_rwxI'm up in the place in Mountain View for the week! It's wonderful and exciting and buzzing -- the day I started, there were on the order of fifty other people starting up with me!
The energy here is great -- all the googlers are super pumped, friendly, well fed. And there's so much to learn! Not just the things particular to the Goog (which there's a lot of), but I have to figure out what it means to work for a big company, how to be appropriately professional (while wearing a t-shirt, doing scavenger hunts, and playing video games)... and I have to develop super-powers. Everybody's working so hard to learn and learn here; my programmer muscles are going to be enormous.
The Goog is doing so many things. You don't even know, and I'm not supposed to tell you. It's wild. It's like gradschool, but faster, with more money (and free delicious food all the time, instead of on random fortuitous occasions), and it's expected that stuff you make is going to work -- not just eventually, but Quite Soon. And to help you make it work, they give you the hookup.
And everybody here is brilliant. In the past few days, I had conversations about Egyptian hieroglyphs, type systems and message passing, machine shops, economics, poetry (I met Jon Trowbridge, author of the gnoetry autopoet system -- he's a real hip cat)... oh yeah, and search engines.
Woo :) I'll be back in the ATL on Saturday.
The energy here is great -- all the googlers are super pumped, friendly, well fed. And there's so much to learn! Not just the things particular to the Goog (which there's a lot of), but I have to figure out what it means to work for a big company, how to be appropriately professional (while wearing a t-shirt, doing scavenger hunts, and playing video games)... and I have to develop super-powers. Everybody's working so hard to learn and learn here; my programmer muscles are going to be enormous.
The Goog is doing so many things. You don't even know, and I'm not supposed to tell you. It's wild. It's like gradschool, but faster, with more money (and free delicious food all the time, instead of on random fortuitous occasions), and it's expected that stuff you make is going to work -- not just eventually, but Quite Soon. And to help you make it work, they give you the hookup.
And everybody here is brilliant. In the past few days, I had conversations about Egyptian hieroglyphs, type systems and message passing, machine shops, economics, poetry (I met Jon Trowbridge, author of the gnoetry autopoet system -- he's a real hip cat)... oh yeah, and search engines.
Woo :) I'll be back in the ATL on Saturday.
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Date: 2007-08-02 08:39 am (UTC)"Live from the People's Republic"
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Date: 2007-08-03 03:13 am (UTC)(I still need to see that movie... did you enjoy it?)
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Date: 2007-08-04 06:06 am (UTC)(Plus it got me interested in Bruce Campbell and led directly to the discovery of the Evil Dead series. Evil Dead 2 may well be the most entertaining thing ever committed to celluloid.)
"Live from the People's Republic"
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Date: 2007-08-02 01:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-03 03:00 am (UTC)(maybe these could be you, sort of? (http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1116&dep_id=1093)... I met a mechanical engineer this week; he's a real hip cat.)
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Date: 2007-08-03 09:04 am (UTC)HOW CAN I B NUMBER 1 ON THE SERACH EVRY TIME >>> I WANT 2 SEARCH ENGIN OPTIMIZE
THX IN ADVANCE
....no, really, sounds amazing! I can't wait to hear more. When do you find out what your first project will be? :)
(See you Friday night at Mike and Sean's for Sean's graduation party, I hope?)
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS.
Date: 2007-08-04 03:38 am (UTC)I'm still in Mountain View -- very sad. Heading back tomorrow. Have fun at the par-tay! :)