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Discussion on: Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues (at scale)

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Walker Harrison

From In the Plex (which I know you've already read):

...Page demanded that they work on problems that might be a decade out, or maybe even a problem that would come up only in a science fiction novel. Page's point of view seemed to be, If you are ridiculously premature, how can people catch up to you?

Basically, DEV will be Google soon. Hurrah!

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Ben Halpern

Well... duh. But seriously, it's in my nature to have my head in the future (or in the clouds) and the important part at this stage is resisting the urge to actually work on the problems this far ahead of time.