Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…Thank you. Happy to be here. A really fun fact about you is that apparently you have the very first Google Doc file. I don't know what you call it. The very first Google Doc document saved somewhere from before even Google Docs was a thing. And does it still work in today's Google Docs? And what is in this document? Yeah, it does actually still work. It's pretty funny. Actually, if I move my camera for a second you might, if you're on YouTube, you can see the Writely thing in the background. Writely was the company that did Google Docs. Yeah, it still works. And it's funny though because it's like the document of DCS, right? So we started off 2005, wrote this thing in C#, which is a little known, in our own... It was pre-cloud, so we had three file servers that we rented that were Windows machines in a data center in Texas with a sysadmin in the Philippines running them. So it started there. And then when we moved to Google, we ported everything to Java, we moved all the data over into Bigtable. And we didn't lose anything. We never lost anybody's stuff. So it's still there and moved across. And then so that's one backend migration, and there's another one with Spanner. And then the front end has been rewritten twice as well. So it's like, is it really the same document? I don't know. The front end, back end have been rewritten. It's not much. It's just me saying something to Steve about, is collaboration working? Are we colliding on each other? Because we were trying to figure out typing on one line, if that algorithm was working. And then there's a picture of Edna from The Incredibles pasted into it. I don't know why. I think that came after, so I might've gone back and pasted that in. I'm not sure when. We must've been testing pictures or something. Unfortunately, we don't have the version history anymore, so I don't know what was original, original. But it is the oldest Google Doc from October 2005 or something like that.…

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