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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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Archive for April 18th, 2005

Array.character_name

April 18th, 2005

Looks like there are still some vestiges of GNE (Game Neverending, Ludicorp’s original product, since discontinued to focus on Flickr) inside the Flickr engine. I always suspected it (some of the URLs end in .gne) but now I have proof, thanks to the most excellent Rod:

Subject: [Flickr] Array.character_name has given you a Pro Account!

It’s somehow very cool to me (since I have had networked multiplayer environments on the brain since high school) knowing that, somewhere deep inside Flickr, I am a character in a game.

Black smoke.

April 18th, 2005

[2:17] <Adam> Black Smoke, no pope.

[2:18] <TreyB> As expected.

[2:18] <Adam> Al Gore demands a recount.

[2:19] <TreyB> He invented the conclave, don’t you know.

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