hemos

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by hemos 5y ago
And, as you might guess from my username, I remember some of those comments on the early BTC threads. +1, insightful
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by hemos 10y ago
While obviously, yes, we are a public company and aligned with shareholder value, you are vastly underestimating the core of the altruism in the Googlers doing this work (and working on Elections, and G4NP and so on)...and who are also a la
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by hemos 10y ago
As other Googlers have said (and yes, I'm also one) 20% time is a bit misunderstood and always has been. Suffice it to say that it never died, and different groups have different levels of participation - some times, some teams are fo
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Google's Open Source OSX FileVault2 Escrow Key(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
3 points by hemos 15y ago|0 comments
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by hemos 15y ago
Decent; but not great. Nate is doing http://ingenuitas.com
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by hemos 15y ago
ON IT.
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by hemos 15y ago
Indeed; and I tend to think of visiting HN, Reddit etc as like going to visit my kids/grandkids. They've grown so much!
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by hemos 15y ago
I should get him to the post his joke resume. It's not even just one page, it's two lines on one page.
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by hemos 15y ago
I can absolutely confirm that it is him. Although you have to trust that I am in fact, hemos, but the other folks I know on here can attest to that.
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Simian Mac Package Manager Update(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
2 points by hemos 15y ago|0 comments
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by hemos 15y ago
K5 was interesting to me, and I actually was the one who negotiated an ad deal between Andover and Rusty to help him with money for the first couple years. K5 had very much the same feel as Everything2 which was the "other" site to Slashdo
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by hemos 15y ago
Ironically, I've been a lurking AC.
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by hemos 15y ago
The latter. I can testify to that. And if you look back at when Kevin Rose was doing the G4 stuff, there's an interview with Rob where Kevin asks Rob what he would do different. Rob outlines basically Slashdot + user voting. A few month
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by hemos 15y ago
What's been interesting to see is the gradual migration back from Digg & Reddit; not so much HN. But the issue tends to happen when sites begin to try and cover "everything" that you end up driving out the original and central audience
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by hemos 15y ago
It was; Neil and I actually talked about that at one point. Our first email exchange ran something along the lines of me saying my (then baby) first born had a Sandman mobile above her crib; Neil's reply "And my son's home page is Slashdot"
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by hemos 15y ago
Hahaha. If only; no, Rob and I will be working.
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by hemos 15y ago
The moderation system is one of the things Rob and I are most proud of. We set out to make a system that would allow for anonymous postings while avoiding it turning into Usenet. I think, with some hiccups, we largely succeeded. We also
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by hemos 15y ago
Hell, it was targeted at me, and I found it hilarious.