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[ILUG] Google "behind the scenes" tech talk

[ILUG] Google "behind the scenes" tech talk

Martin List-Petersen martin+ilug at list-petersen.net
Tue Nov 16 14:39:42 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:34, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2004, at 12:21, Colm Buckley wrote:
> 
> >> But will he answer the BIG question :-)
> >
> >> P.S. Why, how many boxes they have, of course.
> >
> > Oh, even I can answer that one...
> >
> > <scroll down>
> >
> > Just enough.
> 
> 
> Gosh - and I thought Google employed smart engineers. A well designed 
> system of google's size at any given moment would surely have more than 
> enough machines?

Sorry, but smart engineers usually are smart enough, not to go through 6
interviews to get employed, unless they are desperat. Usually someone
else would have snatched them of the marked before.

Slán lait,
Martin List-Petersen
Dublin, Eire 
(contact info on --> http://www.marlow.dk/)




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