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Today I made more progress on coding and bike riding. I've been in the testing phase for 2 entire days now and all the tests are passing but I'm still skeptical that they're testing the right things. It's difficult to test whether a program meant to modify jobs on a distributed system works without jobs and without a distributed system for testing.
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Today was day 7 of my team's sprint and day 7 of actually coding for me. So far I've cranked out about 1,000 lines of C++ and some internal language, neither of which I have anything past beginner experience with going into my 4th week at Google. I'm still waiting on the first CL to be approved and struggling to write tests for the next project chunk that have proper coverage. Writing tests that pass is one thing, writing tests that check if a program that needs to run on a distributed system works without actually running it on said distributed system is another thing.
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WARNING Long post ahead with lots of pictures (but I promise it's worth the read) WARNING
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So concludes my first week at the Googleplex. Although I got quite a bit of code done, I'm still in what my manager calls CL purgatory as I wait indefinitely for my CL to be reviewed and possibly approved. Meanwhile I'm annoyed that I can't VPN into the network to finish the code I was working on today and yesterday so now I'm forced to wait until Monday to get anything done. Separating work from home is annoying as I do some of my best work at home and I'm more productive at night.
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Today wasn't very eventful adventurewise since I didn't really explore more of the campus. I did try Indian food for the first time at a special cafe in Google -- the only one I know of in which you need to make reservations. Here we ate lamb and and rice and other interesting food which I can neither remember the names of nor pronounce them even if I did. This was all served family-style, which I learned is where they bring out everything on the menu in large dishes so you can serve yourself. Unfortunately we made our reservations for a little late in the day for lunch so we didn't get to eat much lamb before they ran out.