Earlier quoted context omitted.
oops my bad, I didn't realize this was a fictional story. <feels dumb?
I think he was telling an allegorical, fictional story for humor value.
Nope, true story with speculation added.
James Gosling joining Google
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Re: James Gosling joining Google
#42I once saw Gosling in an airport terminal waiting for a flight. He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy. When he finished his hot dog, he threw the messy wrapper directly onto the carpet. It was not a missed shot at the trash can, it was just blithely dropped on the floor. That's when I realized his work on automatic garbage collection had gone too far. I can'…
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#43Ken Thompson, Guido Von Rossum, James Gosling : Good going Google.
Don't forget Rob Pike. :-)
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#44Can we speculate good amount of boost to Mirah?
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#45I expect we'll be seeing Google Emacs join the Apps suite.
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#46I once saw Gosling in an airport terminal waiting for a flight. He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy. When he finished his hot dog, he threw the messy wrapper directly onto the carpet. It was not a missed shot at the trash can, it was just blithely dropped on the floor. That's when I realized his work on automatic garbage collection had gone too far. I can'…
* I suspect that Bjarne would have discarded his own trash properly.*
either that or the wrapper would have caught fire and burned the whole terminal down.
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#49I once saw Gosling in an airport terminal waiting for a flight. He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy. When he finished his hot dog, he threw the messy wrapper directly onto the carpet. It was not a missed shot at the trash can, it was just blithely dropped on the floor. That's when I realized his work on automatic garbage collection had gone too far. I can'…
I think that Bjarne would not throw anything away. He would use the wrapper as writing paper.
Re: James Gosling joining Google
#50One year almost to the day since he quit Sun/Oracle (see http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/time_to_move_on ). That probably means he had a 1-year non-compete built into his employment agreement which he had to wait out (which makes me curious about what he could be working on at Google that could trigger that)
Many modern, enforceable (even in Cali) non-competes have a clause that provides you full salary/benefits in exchange for not working for any competing firm during that period. Pretty sweet deal for hacking projects you never got around to -- I've seen several folks in finance basically just go dark and hack on the beach for 6mo-1yr before returning to the field.
The actual term for being paid to "not work" is called "being on the beach."