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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“Someone criticized me once,” recalls Eoin, “and asked why we’d made ‘Roygbiv’ so short.

January 14th, 2002


“Someone criticized me once,” recalls Eoin, “and asked why we’d made
‘Roygbiv’ so short. For us, that is exactly how long it should be. It’s like
that famous bit at the end of ‘Strawberry Fields’ by The Beatles, where you
get the little voice at the end that says something like ‘I buried Paul,’
and it happens once, and it’s such a transitory thing that’s mixed in one
ear really far away, but people went
on and on about it for decades.”

By the way, they have announced a
new LP due in February. drooool

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