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I strongly strongly agree with you about new-grad Googlers not knowing how good they have it (food/gym/tgif? TECH STOP!), and I agree with you about degrees to
by jholman 13y ago
I strongly strongly agree with you about new-grad Googlers not knowing how good they have it (food/gym/tgif? TECH STOP!), and I agree with you about degrees too. As an amusing joke the article's close enough to home to be funny; as a serious criticism... well, it's far enough off to be funny.
The proprietary thing is dead-on, though. I started listing major proprietary technologies, got close to twenty, and decided I wasn't sure how much of that was trade secret, and deleted it. Google technology looks like we're on a different Galapagos island from the rest of tech, and the landbridge sunk into the sea in 2003, and once in a while a bird in a windstorm carries a seed across. Usually Google tech is superior to comparable outside tech, sometimes it's inferior.
As an aside for Googlers, have you seen that Facebook thing "Buck", that some ex-Googler named Michael Bolin "invented"? I don't even know what to say.
- x1024 13y agoHonestly? The difference between G and F is that F actually released the code. You saying "but we had this for years...as a proprietary system" kind of proves the author's point.
- jholman 13y agoWhich point of which author? Also, what did you think I was arguing?
- jjwiseman 13y agoThere's a tradition of ex-Googlers re-implementing the Google build system (it was definitely my favorite part of the Google infrastructure). See, e.g., twitter's pants: https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/python/twitter/pants/README.md https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/python/tw...