cdibona

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by cdibona 16y ago
Oh, sure, but some of the best people won't work on a contract basis.
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by cdibona 16y ago
I would say that interviewing for engineering knowledge (coding, algorithms, software engineering) is pretty straight forward, but interviewing to figure out if a candiate can get 'real' work done is very difficult. I don't know of any magi
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by cdibona 16y ago
Actually the first application of that phrase to Linux came well before Eric appeared on the scene. I'd say that I first saw it on a t-shirt for Linux Expo in North Carolina in 97 or 98, and it was being used colloquially well before that.
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by cdibona 16y ago
We care, it's not open source, so it shouldn't be treated as such.
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by cdibona 16y ago
I have the soundtrack from it, which is admittedly the most embarrassing part :-)
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by cdibona 16y ago
See below, under 2870.a.1. That definition can be all encompassing. 2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her
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by cdibona 16y ago
While this seems like quite a bucket of cold water was dropped on your head, I will tell the assembled hackers here in hn that these sorts of clauses are not just present in your contracts but in the laws that govern your employment as well
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by cdibona 17y ago
Actually, I don't think I said this exactly. I think I said "We are hiring." We have way more than 2 reqs for android and non-android related kernel work. I think I might have said that I can see hiring a few people just to do kernel pushes
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by cdibona 17y ago
And yet, the kernel and chromium are excellent codebases under healthy and active development and are running on tens or hundreds of millions of machines. We should all 'Fail' so well. People are happy to rant and rage, but the value of the
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by cdibona 17y ago
We had a problem in one of our data centers and as the service migrated we threw some 502s. It's okay now, I'm hearing. Sorry bout that!
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by cdibona 17y ago
Watch: I choose to ignore the warranty clause per clause 0. Also, since that clause exists, I can choose to apply it to other code I combine it with (unlikely, but its a dumb license that way) Past that, I'm not convinced that due to clause
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by cdibona 17y ago
These kinds of licenses are cute, but you shouldn't use one as it just makes life harder on those that might adopt and patch back into your software. Additionally, in this case, the lack of a disclaimer of warranty in this particular cute l
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by cdibona 17y ago
I thought open letters came after closed ones :-) Seriously, the merger just closed, we're only just starting the integration of the two companies.
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by cdibona 17y ago
I would point out that we have investments in solar thermal, geothermal and EGS (hot dry rock) power generation technologies. That said, I don't think this is about that.
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by cdibona 17y ago
Exactly. Anyone who knows Hixie knows that he's going to continue and that the W3c has to keep up or enjoy irrelevancy vis a vis html5.
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by cdibona 17y ago
Some take months to go up, from what I hear. It was an okay talk.
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by cdibona 17y ago
The same is true of hard drives, and monitors. Snort
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by cdibona 17y ago
Believe me, he didn't need to buy one.
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by cdibona 17y ago
We have a few apps that aren't open source, and they have an entire operating system that hasn't shipped as open source yet. See how that works? This guy is a joker.
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by cdibona 17y ago
I'd think so, this is very much in the same domain as Apple's new product. It was the change of domain that exposed apple (computer) to the apple (music) trademark. But this is actually as if Apple named the Iphone out of the gate as an "Ap
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by cdibona 17y ago
Obviously not the same kind of thing, but here's what happened when the Bush administration got too grabby... http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/060119-060352 (Disclaimer: I work at google)
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by cdibona 17y ago
You can!
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by cdibona 17y ago
I work at Google running open source compliance, code release, outreach and on public sector engineering management. Management, meaning, I don't code much anymore, although I added a totally trivial constant (1729, Hardy Ramanujan's number
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by cdibona 17y ago
I think the right way to deal with this is to find a way to use our closure tool to replace jsmin's functionality in a dfsg/osi approved way. Not before the new year though (I was the dude who said no way to jsmin on google code)
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by cdibona 17y ago
I hope I didnt' come off as competitive with Wattvision, the more people helping people save energy, the better we all are.
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by cdibona 17y ago
Actually, I'm looking at the in-house readout and it is quite live. (to the second) The gadget lags, but maybe 10 minutes, not a day. I'm using the ted5k. I don't know what you mean by simple, it's really detailed, and you can even load pri
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by cdibona 17y ago
Actually, we intend to opensource the UI as well. So server + federation + syncronization + client ui.
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by cdibona 17y ago
The hardest part is not knee-jerk reacting to the vitriol and trying to get to the root of the complaint. So instead of saying "Some jerk wants us to open source project x" we try (and sometimes it is harder than you think!) to say "Okay, s
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by cdibona 17y ago
If you mean Wave, there is some code open sourced (syncronizer), and we're working on getting the rest out. Also, we have federation testing. You should join the dev list if you want to try it out. There are some neat non-google implemented
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by cdibona 17y ago
Actually, a fair amount of this kind of advertising is Google. Also Yahoo, MS and any number of other providers. Sure doesn't make DNS hijacking right, though. <i>Disclaimer: Work for Google.</i>

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