Thanks for everything you've done for Go Brad. Many things that I've built would not have been possible without your contributions.
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
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#12Just curious why "Leaving Google" posts is put on the front page by HN.
He has been quite a significant member of a project (Go, or portions there-of, and possible other things I'm not aware of myself) that has impacted people here through their use of the language, and has affected other languages/frameworks less directly.
Leaving Google means he won't be working (at least not directly as he is currently employed to) on that stuff, so the interest is from two angles: what affect might this have on the direction of the projects he is leaving, and what is he moving on to influence next.
Me leaving my current job wouldn't make HN because I don't have any such significance. I'd wager the same could be said of almost everybody, but, demonstrably, not him.
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#13“Why’d you leave”?
Because I’m rich!
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#14It’s amazing how this is the first time I have heard his name. Great people basically disappear under the Google name.
Well, I disagree. His presence has been huge in social media and in a variety of Go-specific communities. Google has had a great impact in that because it was basically sponsoring the whole thing.
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#15It’s amazing how this is the first time I have heard his name. Great people basically disappear under the Google name.
Brad here.
I wrote about this when I first joined Google, having noticed the same prior to joining:
https://brad.livejournal.com/2409049.html
That was my big fear of joining Google, being sucked into the black hole.
(Ignore the later part of the post about the App Engine app that I couldn't keep running because App Engine kept breaking me all the time.)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
A user shared it and 39 other users voted it relevant.
Might I ask how do you see those stats please ? Am I missing some link oor ?
Each upvote a story gets represents one user signaling it's relevant for HN. So it's already public and in front of you :)
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#17bradfitz’s career is inspirational because he has succeeded in prioritizing curiosity. never would have guessed a perl guy who wrote memcached to solve livejournal problems would move on to go - only to walk away for something more interesting. can’t wait to see what comes next.
Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
#18Just curious why "Leaving Google" posts is put on the front page by HN.
It's not about Leaving Google, it's about bradfitz, who is an awesome well known engineer.
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#19Just curious why "Leaving Google" posts is put on the front page by HN.
I assume many were expecting the post to reflect negatively on Google as this place is primarily run on Google bashing.