[FRIAM] The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker

[Russ Abbott]

What I found interesting was that they do so much of their work pair
programming. I find it difficult to imagine writing software in that kind
of relationship. I would guess that when I'm working on code, I spend no
more than 25% of the time actually typing things on the keyboard. The rest
of the time is thinking, or pacing, or getting tea, or looking things up,
etc. I don't know how that would work as part of a pair. And yet they are
among the best coders at Google. Jeff Dean is legendary for his work. And
the other guy is supposed to be just as good. How can they do that while
bound together? Hard for me to understand.

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 7:33 PM Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

> Interesting read on the history of computing.
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> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge
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