Here's a thought: what constitutes a very smart person? How often do those occur in the global population? Now, how many people are there on the planet and how big is the company?
The Earth may not be big enough for that to work out. This is before you remove people who aren't in this industry, people who are too young or too old to work there, people who don't want to work there, people who DID work there and left, and so on.
It might explain a lot, particularly when they go on a hiring bender. Where are all of these new people coming from?
Thats been the case with xooglers interviewing with my company. It seems like there are a lot of average to below average people working at Google for some reason. Or at least the below average people interview a lot.
The internal architecture of wave was very abstract.
a lot of this abstraction was exposed in the first federation spec, somewhat due to necessity, somewhat due to lack of time.
