Back at Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First Code Request

3 years ago (forbes.com)

"Several dozen engineers gave the request LGTM approval"

I'm picturing a caricature of a software engineer drooling onto his keyboard with excitement as he slams his greasy fingers onto the "L", "G", "T" and "M" keys. Please, Sergey, notice me senpai.

  • In reality, it was a SWE complaining that Sergey didn't punctuate his comments.

    • and that is why we need static typing because people do not want to be labeled as nitpickers, and therefore anything allowed by computer will be merged eventually.

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This is so silly. He added his username to a permissions config file. I've looked at the CL. It's really not exciting.

  • It means it's not automated :) And why not? It only happens during onboarding (and the revert for offboarding).

    So, plenty of chances to make a typo or break the linter conventions. Is it your numeric email or first name/last initial; is it @gmail.com like the whole world or a different corporate one?

    It's exciting because it speaks of things to come. Maybe they will see a living legend on campus.

    It makes me think of skunkworks projects: the next day, your manager is on some team downstairs. Along with a couple of guys in the silo across the hall. And the guy who rolled his own distributed mutex pub-sub.

    That's my outsider's perspective. I'd be giddy too.

has anyone ever used the term "code request" in this context before?