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FAQ on Leaving Google

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462 points mrled | 1 comments | 17 Jan 24 22:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.389s | source
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crossroadsguy ◴[17 Jan 24 23:34 UTC] No.39035178[source]▶
I had to pause here for a second

> “enormous pride” in “building” a Chicago Engineering office over decades, and achieving really cool things in the Developer, “Ads”, and Search divisions

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1. dekhn ◴[18 Jan 24 01:19 UTC] No.39036225[source]▶
My favorite were his (or fitz's) videos of the building they moved into; it was an old storage facility and they had to defrost something like 30 years of ice and remove 50 years of walls.

He basically built svnhub before github existed, but leadership saw little to no value in owning a code site. He knew how to build products for professional hackers who wanted to build interesting things. And he helped fund a generation of gsoc hackers improving open source codes.