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An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

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Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

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Post by nostrademons »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #31
nostrademons wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Don't hear about them much these days I hear about Brad every single day because I follow him on Twitter. It's just a question about where you consume your information from.

I think it's more that the volume of information has massively expanded since. In the days before MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter, LiveJournal was the social network (along with blogs and personal websites), so naturally its founder and people who were active on it had higher profiles.

Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

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Post by fyp »

> 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?

Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

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Post by mynegation »

Reading through his itemized list saw "Met Googler wife", which reminds me: Brad created LiveJournal where I met my wife and many new friends. Thank you for that, Brad! I have been watching your work on LJ, memcached, Camlistore ..err I mean Perkeep. You are an inspiration and I will be excited to see what you will invent next!

Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

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Post by rohan1024 »

bradfitz wrote: post #34
NhanH wrote: post #26

To 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.

See: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/perkeep/Kqvh2dJVmoo/9N4YXAuX... I no longer pay Mathieu to work on it full time, and my time is tempered by 2.5 and 0.5 year old kids. I still use it, but don't have time to add to it much. Others work on it a bit. Mathieu and I did work on https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp just recently, to fix the Google Photos importer. So it's still moving a bit. Others still work on it t…

The moment I read the title, the first thing that came to mind was perkeep. I don't use it atm but I would love to. It's such a futuristic project that needs to exist.

Thanks a tonne for your contribution to it.

Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

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Post by xwowsersx »

crystaldev wrote: post #28

Good 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.

I hate it so much.

Re: An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

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Post by mtnGoat »

eterm wrote: post #35
disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #3

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?

be a developer anywhere where development is considered a cost center and a smaller part of the company head count. They will move you around like a tumbleweed. When i worked in healthcare I moved close to quarterly, square footage was at a premium and all the income generators fought tooth and nail for it. The worst was moving between campuses.
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