Re:Challenging projects every programmer should try
by abecedarius on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:14PM
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BTW at Yahoo in the 2000s I learned that Manber had invented at least one new trade-secret algorithm while he was there. The one I ran across wasn't for string matching but it was a fairly basic kind of thing.
i've met a good fraction of the first 128 google employees, and this could not be farther from the truth:
> It's certainly not people who are lost in details like string matching or how ACID is implemented in distributed databases.
the people who thought those things were unimportant details were the ones who tried to compete against google and failed, like lycos, inktomi, and pets.com
like, check out the wikipedia article on udi manber, who is best known for spending 15 years 'lost' in string matching:
> In 2002, he joined Amazon.com, where he became "chief algorithms officer" and a vice president. (...) In 2004, Google promoted sponsored listings for its own recruiting whenever someone searched for his name on Google's search engine. In 2006, he was hired by Google as one of their vice presidents of engineering. (...) In October 2010, he was responsible for all the search products at Google.
the fact that in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38769506 you claimed that orchestra conductors don't need to play any instrument further calls your credibility into question