At the Something Awful forums a user called ZorbaTHut, who claims to be a Google engineer who spend his 20% free time improving Google Calculator, has started a thread called "Ask me about Google (and Google Calculator)," and, at least to a geek like me, the results are fascinating. Unlike the many articles that have been written about the inner workings of Google, ZorbaTHut reveals trivia about the company that, while not of much interest to shareholders and Wall Street Journal readers, might be interesting to Download Squad readers. In case you don't have the attention span to scroll through seven pages of forum thread, Google Blogoscoped has posted some of the more interesting excerpts from the discussion. According to Zorba, Google employees get one terabyte of Gmail storage.Posts with tag SomethingAwful
What it's really like inside Google
At the Something Awful forums a user called ZorbaTHut, who claims to be a Google engineer who spend his 20% free time improving Google Calculator, has started a thread called "Ask me about Google (and Google Calculator)," and, at least to a geek like me, the results are fascinating. Unlike the many articles that have been written about the inner workings of Google, ZorbaTHut reveals trivia about the company that, while not of much interest to shareholders and Wall Street Journal readers, might be interesting to Download Squad readers. In case you don't have the attention span to scroll through seven pages of forum thread, Google Blogoscoped has posted some of the more interesting excerpts from the discussion. According to Zorba, Google employees get one terabyte of Gmail storage.Three big lists of useful software
Every day on digg there's
another list of freeware, games, or whatever. Well here's yet another list,
although this time there's three lists from the first I found. And for added fun, two of the three are scoured from the
rank and file of Something Awful contributors. The first is a bunch of useful Windows apps, the second is useful Linux apps, and the third is OS X (not Something Awful related). The Windows list
includes an entire category for Shiny Chrome, which are mostly mods and guages for Winders (including some app
launchers we might have missed on the launcher spree we went on a few weeks ago). Definitely a lot of great
software on this list. Sadly, the Linux list is lacking in content. Only two or three apps per category. I know there's
more than that folks... Of course, the Apple list is good and bad and ugly. I mean, obviously Microsoft Office is going
to be in there, but did it need it's own sub-category? Anyway, these lists are fun for about twenty minutes or so,
until you realize you've seen them all before (and only a couple were worth keeping). But there they are, ready for you
to show a less-aware friend who asks you, "where can I find another chat tool?"
