Things I learnt about Google last night

They have very swish offices.
People who attend these things are mostly normal.
Google love testing. They have programmer notes on testing above the urinals in the loos!
The adhesive in their paper cups dissolves in alcohol. Red wine, for example.
Designing a touch interface for chess is tricky.
It’s possible to implement a webmail system using only a single monolithic MS SQL Server stored procedure.

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Posted at 11:15:00 GMT on 22^nd February 2008.

Matt Godbolt is a C++ developer living in Chicago. He works for Hudson River Trading on super fun but secret things. He is one half of the Two's Complement podcast. Follow him on Mastodon or Bluesky.