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plicenselast Wednesday at 3:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Just wanted to say, one of the exciting things I realized when I joined Google was that the maintainer of GDB was my org's director at that time. Not sure how much it matters, but it gave me confidence in the leadership to know that someone who knows the details is running the show at the top. It made me trust the leadership chain much more than I normally would otherwise.


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DannyBeelast Thursday at 12:29 AM

Thanks - it is truly and greatly appreciated :)

I wonder if this was the LOL[1] days - looking back on it, it's hard to believe how much people outside the org cared about the name, and us trying to not take ourselves too seriously.

[1] For everyone else, at one point we named the org Languages, Optimizations, and Libraries. People either loved or hated it.