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Re:Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum by intropic on Friday December 07, 2012 @05:44PM (#4889639)
I'm not sure how I can see Guido having the effect at Dropbox that he had at Google. Dropbox's engineering difficulties, while large, are not near that of Google's. Is this more of a Matz being hired by Heroku scenario, in name only sort of thing.
Re:Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum by onedev on Friday December 07, 2012 @07:14PM (#4889964)
stop acting like you know abut Dropbox's engineering difficulties.
Re:Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum by Evbn on Friday December 07, 2012 @11:16PM (#4890613)
They are language designers, not systems engineers. Any place with programmers has problems they can solve, and hopefully open source.