{"id":6130,"date":"2014-11-08T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2014-11-08T00:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:09:18","slug":"larry-page-sergy-brin-are-lousy-coders-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/08\/larry-page-sergy-brin-are-lousy-coders-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Page, Sergy Brin Are Lousy Coders &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the developers most responsible for building the Google.com that quickly became the Web&#8217;s most powerful company are two guys you&#8217;ve probably never heard of.<br \/>\nThe first is Urs H\u00f6zle. According to one early Googler quoted by Edwards, H\u00f6zle was &#8220;the key&#8221; to Google&#8217;s early success.<br \/>\nEdwards writes, &#8220;Enough engineers sang his praises that this book could have been written entirely as a\u00a0hagiography of Saint Urs, Keeper of the Blessed Code.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe second is Jeff Dean. Edwards writes that &#8220;Jeff pumped out elegant code like a champagne fountain at a wedding.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It seemed to pour from him effortlessly in endless streams that flowed together to form sparkling programs that did remarkable things. He once wrote a two-hundred-thousand-line application to help the Centers for Disease Control manage specialized statistics for epidemiologists. It&#8217;s still in use and garners more peer citations than any of the dozens of patented programs he has produced in a decade at Google. He wrote it as a summer intern in high school.&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/larry-page-sergy-brin-are-lousy-coders-2013-10\">Larry Page, Sergy Brin Are Lousy Coders &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the developers most responsible for building the Google.com that quickly became the Web&#8217;s most powerful company are two guys you&#8217;ve probably never heard of. The first is Urs H\u00f6zle. According to one early Googler quoted by Edwards, H\u00f6zle was &#8220;the key&#8221; to Google&#8217;s early success. Edwards writes, &#8220;Enough engineers sang his praises &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/08\/larry-page-sergy-brin-are-lousy-coders-business-insider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Larry Page, Sergy Brin Are Lousy Coders &#8211; Business Insider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,72,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-career","category-programming","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}