Google Lore
This person fessed up to inventing $ and ^ symbols in regex, and later apologized in an internal email.
Who is Ken Thompson?
The Chicago Google Cloud Office kitchen features this specialized infrastructure to support what is oft considered local snobbery
What is a pizza oven?
After attending this camp for nerds based in Huntsville Alabama as a child, Aaron has always had the dream to get off planet earth.
What is Space Camp?
Donde esta las cervezas? Both CJ and Zeba enjoy visiting this country across the Atlantic, which is a part of the Iberian peninsula.
What is Spain?
"I'm not tryin to be the best at exercising" is one of the few PG-rated, work appropriate quotes from Jordan's favorite character.
Who is Kenny Powers?
"Bird Mode" was the suggested by this Google executive as the name for "Satellite" view on Google Maps.
Who is Sergey?
This is hands down the most popular type of cuisine among our team.
What is Mexican food?
Google's own Ray Kurzwell says this event is likely to occur around 2045. Greg's dream is to simply survive it.
What is the Technological Singularity?
At Home, in his yurt, or on the road with his van, this teammate of ours could easily go off the grid if needed.
Who is Shane?
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." The gunslinger also known by this name, is among Aaron's favorite characters.
Who is Roland Deschain of Gilead?
This was Google's name before it was Google.
What is BackRub?
True to his southern roots, Clay often enjoys this type of seafood/cornmeal combination.
What is Shrimp & Grits?
If this band hailing from Athens Georgia ever needed a new lead guitarist, Jordan would be more than willing to step in and shred.
Who is Widespread Panic?
Yesterday, today, or tomorrow - you can find Monish on this tropical pacific island that is bisected by the International Date Line.
What is Fiji?
Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you? This iconic Friend's character is Zeba's favorite
Who is Phoebe Buffet?
Charlie's Cafe in Mountain View is named after Charles Ayers, who was the lead chef for this band prior to joining Google as its first chef.
Who is The Grateful Dead?
This Kundan favorite is a dish made with Indian spices, rice, meat, vegetables, in addition to eggs and/or potatoes
What is Biryani?
Using ESPN, a simple neural network classifier, and a custom loss function Andrew hopes to break into this lucrative profession.
What is professional sports gambling?
The Cloud is mostly in Iowa. Or more precisely, us-central1 calls this Omaha suburb home.
What is Council Bluffs?
This hammer-wielding deity associated with lightning and thunder is Vivek's favorite character.
Who is Thor?
This is the name of a Mountain View bar that was once purchased by Google after luke@ filed a guts ticket.
On a sleepy fall afternoon, both Clay and Aaron have been spotted drinking this "healthy" variety of a drink typically associated with nightclubs and base jumpers.
What is sugar free redbull?
After eating some fermented shark in Iceland, Clay wants to travel south east to visit sites like Old Trafford and Villa Park. Home to teams in this world-class soccer league.
What is the EPL? (English Premier League)
Long flight? No problem. Shane enjoys visiting this country on the other side of the globe which also happens to be the place where Lord of the Rings was filmed.
What is New Zealand?
This hacker/pizza delivery driver for the mafia is Matt's favorite character. Or maybe it's his own alter ego?
Hiro Protagonist