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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a code-conscious diet

March 21st, 2004


To recap, Lockergnome just isn’t just serving bad ingredients with bad
presentation, they’re the restaurant you visit every day for its great
service and food that one day changes into a dive with spoiled food and
flies in the kitchen, and then tells you that keeping the place clean is
too “fancy-schmancy??? and that they don’t need to keep using fresh food
because no one will notice anyway and it’s too much trouble. The next
day you see them on the news for rat droppings, food at the wrong
temperature, and slime in the ice machine.

Matt Mullenweg posits that junk code
has a lot in common with junk food. I can see it now: Marvin Zindler’s
HTML Validator!

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