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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by jholman on Sunday June 16, 2013 @05:03PM (#5889979)
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.

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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by x1024 on Sunday June 16, 2013 @05:38PM (#5890118)
Honestly? 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.
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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by jholman on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:33PM (#5890326)
Which point of which author? Also, what did you think I was arguing?
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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by jjwiseman on Monday June 17, 2013 @01:11PM (#5894399)
There'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/tw...
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