I always got a chuckle out of the joke that StackOverflow devs must be the best devs because when StackOverflow goes down, they don't have StackOverflow to look at for answers, haha.
I believe a coffee maker is humankind's finest engineering, then: A machine that can be used by a person who hasn't had coffee.
"Those who most need coffee are the least qualified to brew it." -- me, after forgetting to put the pot under the filter when attempting to make coffee in the office.
That was also a joke at Google
Google might make your resume look better, but jokes don't work like that.
The joke is not that Google developers are so good. Rather, the code base and infrastructure at Google are not the industry standard, so googling to solve your issues wouldn't help you very much. However, Google does have its own internal search engine, Moma, that fulfills a similar role, and code search is also heavily relied upon as well. Google developers fear the day when both of these could go down.
Or are they at serious risk of not being able to bring it back online again? All the solutions are offline now as well…
There are mirrors and offline archives of the site.
You just made me spray my laptop with coffee. Such a good one!