cdibona

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   by cdibona 14y ago

   I'm pretty sure he knew you, I remember when we worked at the same company, we held you in similar high regard :-)
2. 152.▲
   by cdibona 14y ago

   You guys do know we've been paying members of the foundation for going on 6 years or so? This was an additional outlay for some hardware.
3. 153.▲
   by cdibona 14y ago

   So obviously I don't work for the white house, but I suspect that since this code depends on bits of gpl'd code to function, they made the entire project licensed similarly. Also, it is not as simple as you think, government code isn't alwa
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   by cdibona 14y ago

   I'm sorry, but you should really ask yourself if this is true. Bing maybe, as they can do what ddg does and pull a feed from Yahoo/Bing BOSS (maybe?) but to scrape Google would be a very bad and unreliable (and counter to the Google TOS) wa
5. 155.▲
   by cdibona 14y ago

   Tunnel boring machines are extremely difficult to buy and more difficult still to run without oversight. They're just incredibly complex and hard to maintain machines. It's not impossible mind you , I mean, the cartels have all kinds of exp
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   by cdibona 14y ago

   We have a small group from code of conduct/conflicts, open source, android and folks who represent a few other strategic groups at Google and we simply requests one by one. Most of the time it isn't a problem and we grant the request. Gett
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   by cdibona 14y ago

   Thanks for putting this up here :-) (I handle both processes) The copyright process usually takes around 6 weeks, but new open source projects can be released in days (and patches much faster)
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   by cdibona 14y ago

   You're assuming that NASA 'pays' for the flotilla the same way spacex pays for its gear. Think about it, SpaceX probably rents/leases the gear it needs for the time it needs and knows exactly what it costs. Nasa can basically call the local
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   by cdibona 14y ago

   There are so many variables that go into valuing an offer from a startup that any general article like this can not ring true. Here's some questions I'd ask myself if I were considering an offer from a startup. (wow, this is a lot longer th
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    by cdibona 14y ago

    Do you really think the legal picture would be any different if Android were under copyleft?
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    I fundamentally disagree that Android did deep harm to open source. That's just absurd.
12. 162.▲
    by cdibona 15y ago

    This might be ideal, but it can be very difficult to work with an upstream company like Oracle (who are the copyright holders to MySQL).
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    Flight Options is within the realm of the small (yet successful) business person. ( http://www.flightoptions.com )
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    They should include Ampex, a company founded 1944 to reverse engineer German recording technology.
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    Google improves its weather results(google.com)

    4 points by cdibona 15y ago|1 comments
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    Let me assure you that Linus knows full well he has an open offer at Google or any of a dozen companies.
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    They've set up exactly those before at Ted, but no, they didn't do so this year.
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    Basically, if you want to manage a large collection of git source repositories, you'll probably end up using Repo and Gerrit and piggybacking on the work of the android ecosystem (and beyond, gerrit is used all over the place now) There rea
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    You know, I miss both of you at Google. I'm clearly fine with where Google is (or I'd leave) but I wish that you both felt differently. (edit: I changed we to I, I mean, this is more a personal thing..)
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    You're not alone. I like to think of him as 'Future japan prize winner Russ Cox'
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    Yeah, that would be a bit better, then they'd pass 25 or 30 per hour.
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    Let's do the math: Gas + Truck Rental = 100$/day. Parking/tickets in front of embassy: Free? Costly? 3 people (or 4? The article says they have 2 mandarin speakers on tap) in said truck for 8 hours + back and forth time splitting the rem
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    We've gone over this a few times, but let me point out a few things about copyleft compliance for android devices from Google's perspective: We make it easy for companies to comply with the notice requirements (via build scripts that popul
24. 174.▲
    by cdibona 15y ago

    For the record, I like this one better.
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    Zynga is a game company. Who would anyone feel any worse working there than at and enterprise software company or somewhere like fb, tw or google? I'd ask this question to the developers at CarrierIQ though....those guys should be ashamed.
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    I've booked/had people book the DNA and it's not uncommon to go through someone other than Jamie. So, yes, it's possible.
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    I'll pass it on to JBQ and Shawn among the people who did the actual work :-)
28. 178.▲
    by cdibona 15y ago

    I guess I'll start salting my dupe comments :-)
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    That's correct. It wasn't clear which one was going to end up on the front page and I was covering the bases. Stand by :-)
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    by cdibona 15y ago

    Please don't sync yet, it's currently in a mixed state. The 'repo for-all git push' is still running and will take some time to complete, so if you sync now you'll get some parts with Gingerbread and some parts with ICS.