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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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“For the first hour, all the opening doors on the Enterprise are accompanied by a nice door-opening sound effect stolen from Star Trek.

December 12th, 2002


“For the first hour, all the opening doors on the Enterprise are
accompanied by a nice door-opening sound effect stolen from Star Trek.
But by this point in the movie, the Turkish audio engineers have lost
interest. Now whenever someone walks into a room, somebody off camera
makes the sound .swwwsh!. with their mouth two to three seconds after
the door opens.” (Turkish
Star Trek.
)

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