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> 12 years, 5 months at Google > many Google-internal CLs ("change lists" == commits == PRs) > 3,064 Android CLs > 10,787 Go CLs This is at least an average of 3 commits a day (4 if he didn't work weekends). How is that possible?
This is my biggest worry and fear, so easy to just rest and vest. It's hard, as humans, to do something new and risky. Props to you, Brad.
To me, the most surprising thing about this post was a) his low number of managers, and b) his low number of desk changes. In under half that time at another, comparable tech company I hit well over half his number of desk changes.
Have I misunderstood what a desk is? 25 desk changes in 10 years is low? Moving desk at least twice a year is low? Where do you work so I never try to apply?
25 desk locations in 12 years. Is changing desk every 6 months normal at Google?
When I worked at eBay I changed desks more than once a year.
At Netflix it was really abnormal that I sat in the same place for three years. That was largely due to the fact that a special area was built for the SREs with an area for guests to hot desk during incidents and we didn't want to rebuild that.
Pretty much everyone else that reported to my Director moved away before we finally had to move buildings.
> met Googler wife Makes me happy to see this still happening despite the current climate.
Be honest, you are going back to Perl, right? Perl6 will be so amazing when you get involved again. See you at the PDX Perl meetups very soon?
You mean Raku, right? :)
(Edit: it's a joke. But I accept the down votes)
> 5.5 hours of unused massage credits That just seems like poor planning. If he knew he was leaving, he should have scheduled a one hour session each week for the last five. :)
Indeed. I just forgot about them. Also, turns out you can only have one outstanding reservation at a time (so I can't have one all-day massage on my last day) and can't gift them to other employees. Oh well.
That's how they get ya man.
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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…
That's true; some of those folks just left the software industry, though, I think, or are at or approaching retirement age. Tangentially, it's still interesting -- and faintly depressing -- to me how much I think LiveJournal got right about social media that its bigger successors, well, don't, specifically related to privacy. LJ users had comparatively immense control over who could read and reply to posts. This isn'…
To me, the most surprising thing about this post was a) his low number of managers, and b) his low number of desk changes. In under half that time at another, comparable tech company I hit well over half his number of desk changes.
Have I misunderstood what a desk is? 25 desk changes in 10 years is low? Moving desk at least twice a year is low? Where do you work so I never try to apply?
In my eyes, Brad is one of the proverbial 10X engineers. I think Google/Go was lucky to land him and keep him around for this long. Best of luck in your next step, Brad!
10x engineers make other 10x engineers, most of the time. Just look at mathematicians and their mentors and people they mentored, famous names everywhere! It's not a coincidence.