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ZDNet: Working for The Man? Advice to a Young Programmer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 7, 2007

[ Thanks to Jeremy
Allison
for this link. ]

“Making a career out of writing software? Remember that the
community is more important than your employer.

“Working for Google is full of surprises. When I first arrived I
started to get to know my office-mate. He’s a laid back, rather
cool but studious-looking guy with longish hair. I asked him what
he did and learned a lot about how students were taught parallel
processing in a cluster environment. Politely he responded with the
same question and I started to tell him about Samba and what I was
currently working on. ‘You remember around 1988 when AT&T came
out with a file-sharing protocol called RFS (Remote File System) to
compete with NFS (Sun’s Network File System)…’ I
continued…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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