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2005-05-19

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Eric Schmidt: "When I got to Google we were going to build our own financial system because we were frustrated with the limitations of Intuit’s Quickbooks and its five-user license. Seriously."

Speaking of Google, Greg Linden has assembled the slides of today's Factory Tour for efficient consumption.

"Sergey doesn't listen to much music."

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After having implemented a generational garbage collector last week^*, Slava Pestov just finished refactoring Factor [Language]'s sequence words; they're all generic now, as things are supposed to be (and unlike things are in Java, Scheme &c.). Efficient primitive arrays are among the next few improvements planned.

^* "For the last three days I have been working on a new garbage collector for Factor, and its pretty much done [...]" — In case it isn't obvious, this guy is capital-A Amazing.

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