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Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #40
alecbz wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you found Googlers to be self-aggrandizing on average? That's not been my experience working there. (But might be different for "Googlers who talk a lot/are well-known publicly".)

From the outside peering in, the only Googlers are the ones who talk a lot or loudly leverage their ex-googler status on other projects.

It's our way of trying to make something out of all the lost years working away in the salt^H^H^H^Hprotobuf mines. We have to use the 'leverage' because all else we'd have left is money in the bank account and skill sets incompatible with most other places in the industry.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by wawjgreen »

pm90 wrote: post #64
seneca wrote: post #33

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Heh, as much as I hate painting with that wide of a brush it does seem accurate. Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.

> Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement. This is true about any successful institution in general. I noticed it first with Universities but it applies to jobs as well.

I know an MIT PhD (natural sciences) who thinks too highly of herself--when I beat her in the Chinese game of Wuziqi (She's Chinese and has beaten the computer and played nearly all her 20+ years), she was so pissed off....She still had that hubris and self-aggrandizement though, until she discovered by chance, that I used to teach mathematics at one of her Alma maters. After that she became sort of an enemy. This is the problem with self-aggrandizing people.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by halffaday »

spoonjim wrote: post #61

Say what you will about Google but at least it's not a complete fucking parasite on society and the economy like a hedge fund.

I don’t know if writing software as an incidental expense to efficiently allocate capital is actually worse than writing software as an incidental expense to conduct mass surveillance to trick old and poor people into clicking ads.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by wawjgreen »

akomtu wrote: post #11
DrinkWater wrote: post #8

> You may know me from building the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, Hugo, Cobra, Drupal and spf13-vim Actually this is the first time i heard from this guy, but this is an impressive list of projects to be involved in, wow!

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i don't know why your answer got downvoted. is HN community so devoid of a good sense of humor?

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by DoreenMichele »

wawjgreen wrote: post #84
akomtu wrote: post #11

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i don't know why your answer got downvoted. is HN community so devoid of a good sense of humor?

This is a super tired comment that gets posted endlessly.

HN appreciates humor, but it loathes noise. A lot of humorous commentary is noise that adds no value.

If you don't want your funny remarks down voted here, up your game.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by [deleted] »

mupuff1234 wrote: post #10
DrinkWater wrote: post #8

> You may know me from building the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, Hugo, Cobra, Drupal and spf13-vim Actually this is the first time i heard from this guy, but this is an impressive list of projects to be involved in, wow!

Am I the only one who finds that type of phrasing distasteful? I'm sure he didn't build any of those alone, and as a "leader" and a product person he probably didn't do much of the "building". Seems like he was mostly in an advisory role for Drupal, Docker and MongoDB, he didn't exactly build them.

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Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by salmo »

spf13 wrote: post #28
mupuff1234 wrote: post #10

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Am I the only one who finds that type of phrasing distasteful? I'm sure he didn't build any of those alone, and as a "leader" and a product person he probably didn't do much of the "building". Seems like he was mostly in an advisory role for Drupal, Docker and MongoDB, he didn't exactly build them.

I never intended this statement to be taken as if I built these alone. Thanks for this candid feedback. Perhaps a more accurate wording is: "You may know me from helping to build the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, and Drupal & creating Hugo, Cobra and spf13-vim"

I think your wording was fine. I didn’t read that into it at all. Of course you worked with folks to do them. You also spent the majority of the post thanking people you worked with.

I’ve also read your code. I enjoy it and learned a lot more of go that way.

Whatever. Thanks for helping make Go so much fun for me. I look for excuses to write CLIs with Cobra/Viper. They’re of a very few set of libraries I look forward to using.

I use Hugo for much more than it was intended for.

Heck, I wrote a CLI with Cobra around Hugo and a simple theme for my personal note taking and todo management. I was annoyed with other markdown note tools and DIY was a fun waste of time :).

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by nl »

vanderZwan wrote: post #13
spf13 wrote: post #4

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I can confirm it's quite accurate. I've been the person responsible for these metrics the entire time cited.

Technically I don't think "author of article says they can confirm that numbers they used in their article are accurate" really holds up as a valid argument ;). Tongue-in-cheek feedback aside, congrats on all your achievements and good luck on your future projects!

Reading the post you see there are user surveys. Looking for results of those surveys we find this:

> Over half (55%) of respondents use Go at work on a daily basis.

https://go.dev/blog/survey2021-results

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by bogota »

mupuff1234 wrote: post #10
DrinkWater wrote: post #8

> You may know me from building the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, Hugo, Cobra, Drupal and spf13-vim Actually this is the first time i heard from this guy, but this is an impressive list of projects to be involved in, wow!

Am I the only one who finds that type of phrasing distasteful? I'm sure he didn't build any of those alone, and as a "leader" and a product person he probably didn't do much of the "building". Seems like he was mostly in an advisory role for Drupal, Docker and MongoDB, he didn't exactly build them.

These comments are why i stopped sharing my work. You can clearly tell that it is not the authors intent but someone (you) will always take things personal when given the chance.
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