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Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by arethuza »

adamc wrote: post #6
sriramk wrote: post #4

One 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)

Makes me wonder whether they will bring out a competitor to Java, maybe for Android.

Or something as cool as NeWS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS)

Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by larsberg »

sriramk wrote: post #4

One 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.

Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by masterponomo »

I 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't prove this, but I suspect that Bjarne would have discarded his own trash properly.

Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by josephcooney »

adamc wrote: post #6
sriramk wrote: post #4

One 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)

Makes me wonder whether they will bring out a competitor to Java, maybe for Android.

They're certainly stacking the decks with lots of ex-MSFT-ies with experience working on Microsoft's version of the JVM - the CLR. What will the name be? GLR? GVM?

Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by trurl »

masterponomo wrote: post #13

I 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 be so overwhelmed with catching his flight that he would accidentally throw out his boarding pass along with the wrapper.

Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by rbanffy »

masterponomo wrote: post #13

I 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 hold it forever.

Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by brown9-2 »

sriramk wrote: post #4

One 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)

Even if there was a one-year non-compete, it could just as easily be that Google isn't working on anything that would trigger it and Gosling just decided to play safe and wait it out for a year. A year off break from work while you decide what to do next in your career sure sounds like a nice option, and the perfect amount of time to "regroup" like this.

Re: James Gosling joining Google

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Post by statictype »

adamc wrote: post #6
sriramk wrote: post #4

One 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)

Makes me wonder whether they will bring out a competitor to Java, maybe for Android.

They already have at least one world class language designer in Guido. They also have the Go language.

Point being that if they wanted a competing language to Java, they probably already had the talent to get it done. (Or just, you know, use Mono/C#).

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