All your friends are belong to Google
March 30th, 2006
So Jason gets a new job, and I have to hear about it from his blog. Bah.
Since I’m already elbows-deep in gnuplot, here’s a graph to explain what’s going on here:
Fig. 1. Cumulative distribution function of friends, co-workers, and acquaintances working at Google, as a function of time.
Update: Chris points out that my data collection has been sloppy, and that the graph above actually represents the function of friends who have gone (or will go) to work at either Google or Apple.
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4 Responses to “All your friends are belong to Google”
have you posted something like this before, or have i been having the most severe sense of RSS deja vu for the last week. First Charlie Stross’s blog and now here. Though looking at his site now that was genuinely a feed hiccup.
comment posted at 6:01 am on 17 May 2006
That was a super-weird blog glitch. I was using this post to test some TrackBack stuff, and while I was doing that somehow it got switched from “Published” to “Draft” status. I changed it back to “Published”, and lo, the timestamp was updated to today (well, yesterday). I had to refer to the Google cache of the page to find out what the original date/time were. (I guess all my blog post are belong to Google, as well.)
comment posted at 8:13 am on 17 May 2006
If it’s any comfort, the Google recruiter who called me a couple of weeks ago (based on a resume I submitted in 2003!) hasn’t got back to me. Doesn’t look like I’m headed to the Googleplex any time soon.
comment posted at 9:21 pm on 18 May 2006
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comment posted at 10:04 pm on 29 May 2007