Mythical Man-month in Google
October 12 2011, 3:09 AM
I vividly recall my first week at Google. It was in Google's old office in Sydney, high up on the 18th floor of a triangular skyscraper. The views from virtually everywhere in the office were breathtaking. And inside, the walls beamed the warm glow of those wonderful colors so familiar from a childhood playing with Lego--Yellow, Red, Blue and Green.
via rethrick.com
Great writing from (ex?) Googler working on Wave.
As usual, wonderful comments on HN. E.g., from another ex-Googler:
It would take more than a couple weeks, but 10-50k LOC sounds about right. Since leaving google, I've rewritten wave's concurrent editing algorithm in coffeescript in just 3k LOC.
(The above is ShareJS - a start of Etherpad reimplementation)