Just curious why "Leaving Google" posts is put on the front page by HN.
people are saying golang but some of us knew brad before go. remember livejournal? memcached? that's your guy. amazing and inspiring person. i wish him all the best!
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#22It’s amazing how this is the first time I have heard his name. Great people basically disappear under the Google name.
Google manages to turn even the most brilliant men and women into purse dogs. It's kind of their thing. There have been almost two decades of blog posts on this exact phenomenon, and I never get bored of reading them.
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#23Just curious why "Leaving Google" posts is put on the front page by HN.
It's not just anyone, it's Brad Fitzpatrick. He created LiveJournal and is the author of many free software projects such as memcached, PubSubHubbub, OpenID, gearman, and Perkeep.
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#24You don't know me Brad but I am curious as to what's next for someone like you (if you are willing to share). What motivates you for your next thing ? I doubt it is just money but would love to know more.
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#25It’s amazing how this is the first time I have heard his name. Great people basically disappear under the Google name.
It's interesting how fleeting software fame is. Perhaps that's just a special case of how fleeting fame is.
Folks who came of age in the early 2000s certainly remember him - he founded LiveJournal; wrote memcached, MogileFS, Gearman, and a bunch of other prominent software packages; authored the first version of the OpenID spec (which eventually became OAuth, which you see all over the web); and was one of the early Go engineers. He's featured in Coders at Work.
Same with other tech luminaries from that time period: Jamie Zawinski (xemacs, Netscape), Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek, StackOverflow, Trello), Paul Buchheit (GMail, Friendfeed), Kent Beck (Extreme Programming), Ward Cunningham (XP, WikiWikiWeb), et al. Don't hear about them much these days, and when one of Kent Beck's more recent posts was featured on Hacker News people were like "Who is this guy?"
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#26To Brad: What is your plan with regard to perkeep? My understanding is that it is your 20% project, and seems like you are one of the main force keeping it alive.
Just asking since I have multiple servers running it right now, and will need to migrate if it is going to be abandoned.
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#27It’s amazing how this is the first time I have heard his name. Great people basically disappear under the Google name.
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#28Good luck to Brad. It sounds like the last twelve years of his life were pure Google, it's a big change.
> I don't want to get stuck in a comfortable rut. (And Google certainly is comfortable, except for open floor plans.)
It's oddly comforting that even programmers of Brad's caliber are forced to cope with open offices. When can this fad end.
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#29Congrats Brad. You rock
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#30It’s amazing how this is the first time I have heard his name. Great people basically disappear under the Google name.
It's interesting how fleeting software fame is. Perhaps that's just a special case of how fleeting fame is. Folks who came of age in the early 2000s certainly remember him - he founded LiveJournal; wrote memcached, MogileFS, Gearman, and a bunch of other prominent software packages; authored the first version of the OpenID spec (which eventually became OAuth, which you see all over the web); and was one of the early…
I’ve been running a website for over 10 years and have, at various points, made use of all those packages (mogileFS, memcache, gearman). Brad’s influence is enormous.
Thank you, Brad.