Does anyone have a link so I can read the article in China? Or post a pastebin with the text? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex
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#62I worked w/ Ben through our google acquisition. This is all accurate. He's a fun, talented guy. Funnily enough he was only the 4th or 5th strangest bird of the 50 or so employees at 510 systems. Good times...
Wait, what's strange about him?
Ben and I started at Google on the same day. I was pretty psyched to meet him because I'd followed his website (http://vterrain.org/) for years. He's a fairly loud, outgoing guy. Among a bunch of quirky nerds he sticks out with his 10" ponytail. When he first told me he was living out of the parking lot, I thought he was joking.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was referring to this xkcd - http://m.xkcd.com/977/ . The description, as stated in the article, was “You like Isaac Asimov, XML, and shoes with toes. You think the Segway got a bad rap. You own 3D goggles, which you use to view rotating models of better 3D goggles. You type in Dvorak.” I don't think that could be considered a vague personality test that can be applied to many people.
They all are. That's the whole point of the comic.
Yes, and it seems he is smart enough to understand sarcasm...
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#64This is known as an "unhealthy work/life balance".
I guess it depends on your perspective. Zero commute, low living expenses, zero? crime. You can probably go to your RV to take an afternoon nap.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google has some pretty insane machine shops and labs (electrical, bio, & chemistry)... They blow my home lab out of the water -- and I've probably spent upwards of $30k on my home EE lab.
Can you walk into one and use it to make yourself a new set of silverware, or do you have to be, like, working on a Google project?
Our maker space at Google Seattle (which is not a full on machine shop, although we should have the mill online soon) is explicitly for personal projects only (for liability reasons, I believe, although IANALcat).
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#66Presumably if you got a nice big RV with double-glazed windows, aircon, heating, TV, and there were electricity/water/sewage hookups, it could be quite comfortable. It might be worth google making hookups available for employees who want to live in their RVs on-site.
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#67This article pairs nicely with How I Gave Up Alternating Current from a few days ago. The only place left to go in the bachelor lifehacking one upsmanship game is to stop changing clothes and showering altogether, live under a bridge, telecommuting and doing all your work with a prepaid Andro-- err Firefox OS phone that you charge with a hand crank. No parrots.
RMS, is that you?
Re: Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex
#68Presumably if you got a nice big RV with double-glazed windows, aircon, heating, TV, and there were electricity/water/sewage hookups, it could be quite comfortable. It might be worth google making hookups available for employees who want to live in their RVs on-site.
Sounds like a certain CEO
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-hsiehs-home-in-a-trailer...
Re: Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex
#69This article pairs nicely with How I Gave Up Alternating Current from a few days ago. The only place left to go in the bachelor lifehacking one upsmanship game is to stop changing clothes and showering altogether, live under a bridge, telecommuting and doing all your work with a prepaid Andro-- err Firefox OS phone that you charge with a hand crank. No parrots.
RMS, is that you?
Can't be, RMS likes parrots.
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#70In Silicon Valley mythology, sleeping at the office is second only to working out of a garage That's a depressing thought.
I dunno, I slept in my office in grad school. It wasn't out of needing to feel like a hard worker or showing off or whatever, it was more that sometimes I just felt like working until I was about to fall asleep, and then I was too tired to head home.
Much of my work in grad school was episodic, so I often slept on my lab's couch. I'd work for an hour or two, nap for a while until it was time for the next step, and so on.
But I'd rather work at home.