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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by Privacy846 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:39PM (#25410017)
I don’t understand. A PhD is a degree in research. If you have a PhD and are building web servers you sound misqualified.
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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by topkai22 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:34PM (#25410520)
That’s exactly the point- Google in that time frame did a TON of prestige hiring, whether or not it made sense for the actual work they needed to fill.
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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by Privacy846 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:46PM (#25410640)
That’s not what I got from the original comment.
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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by cambalache on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:48PM (#25411205)
How so? That was entirely the point
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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by Privacy846 on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:59PM (#25420791)
You’re not the origianl commenter so I don’t know how you divined that.
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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by dub on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:16PM (#25423432)
Building google _was_ research. It grew out of a PhD thesis. There are publicly available papers describing lots of the infrastructure innovations along the way (GFS, bigtable, mapreduce, borg, spanner, etc)
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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by Privacy846 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:21PM (#25434706)
Take it up with the grandparent comment!!! I replied to the part about hiring PhDs to build web servers, with the strong implications that they were overqualified (or—misqualified) for the task!!!
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Re:Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working c... by dilyevsky on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:15PM (#25413133)
Because it was never a thing
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