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Re:Google's top boss is stumped by one of his own firm's int... by mxschumacher on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:20PM (#13154772)
He has a Ph.D. in computer engineering, little absurd to say "he is not a developer"
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Re:Google's top boss is stumped by one of his own firm's int... by markrages on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:24PM (#13154791)
He wrote lex(1). He's an old-school Unix hacker.
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Re:Google's top boss is stumped by one of his own firm's int... by cperciva on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:23PM (#13154784)
90% of computer science professors aren't developers either. A degree and a profession are not at all the same thing.
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Re:Google's top boss is stumped by one of his own firm's int... by mxschumacher on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:25PM (#13154797)
doesn't matter look at his bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Career
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Re:Google's top boss is stumped by one of his own firm's int... by cperciva on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:27PM (#13154813)
I see nothing there which indicates that he has written even a single line of code in the past 30 years.
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