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Comment by erikpukinskis | Hacker News Reader

Always sad to be reminded how many good people get their careers swallowed up by a corporation. The public sphere suffers.

I have a lot of anger towards Google in particular, who seems to relish in having private resources, secrets, learning and technology that only the annointed may access. I should probably talk to my therapist about that.

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For what it's worth, Google is one of the places which is less likely to swallow your work whole. At least it isn't Apple.

Honest question: how else do you pay the bills?

Work somewhere that public output is part of how you're compensated and promoted. See: https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pay-d... "One important principle of Stack [Overflow] is that we do as much as we can publicly, and we try to leave public artifacts of all the work we do."

Offer her an interview!

My philosophy: sell luxuries in narrow channels but distribute medicine broadly.

It's pretty subjective what fits in which bin, people should decide for themselves. But Google certainly has resources that they consider to be "medicine" for their employees and yet they keep those products in-house.

Damn, how did you survive the 80s/90s!

(I think I can guess the answer).

Things could always be better, but at least it's routine now for stuff like Swift, GoLang, Rust, Protobufs, Cassandra, etc. to get built for internal use and then shared with the world. A far cry from software's dark ages.

But that's capitalism in practise.

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