waving android

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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<J> We should code in C <Un-named-advisor> C is much slower <J> Every CS prof I’ve ever talked to disagrees <Un-named-advisor> This one goes to…

April 7th, 2003

<J> We should code in C

<Un-named-advisor> C is much slower

<J> Every CS prof I’ve ever talked to disagrees

<Un-named-advisor> This one goes to 11

<J> Why not make 10 the loudest, and …

<Un-named-advisor> Enough of your logic. I’ve been doing this for 25 years.

<J> … and it still doesn’t work.
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