This week of September 30th marks my last week at IBM, and I couldn't be more excited to be moving on to the next phase of my career by joining a great team at Facebook! Yes, yes, I am bringing with me my maintainership of both Linux-kernel RCU and the Linux-kernel memory model, my editing of "Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?", and other similar items, just in case you were wondering. ;-)
Of course, it is only appropriate for me to express my gratitude and appreciation for the many wonderful colleagues at IBM, before that at Sequent, and more recently at Red Hat. Together with others in the various communities, we in our own modest way have changed the world several times over. It was a great honor and privilege to have worked with you, and I expect and hope that our path will cross again. For those in the Linux-kernel and C/C++ standards communities, our paths will continue to run quite closely, and I look forward to continued productive and enjoyable collaborations.
I also have every reason to believe that IBM will continue to be a valuable and essential part of the computing industry as it continues through its second century, especially given the recent addition of Red Hat to the IBM family.
But all that aside, I am eagerly looking forward to starting Facebook bootcamp next week. Which is said to involve one of those newfangled smartphones. ;-)
Of course, it is only appropriate for me to express my gratitude and appreciation for the many wonderful colleagues at IBM, before that at Sequent, and more recently at Red Hat. Together with others in the various communities, we in our own modest way have changed the world several times over. It was a great honor and privilege to have worked with you, and I expect and hope that our path will cross again. For those in the Linux-kernel and C/C++ standards communities, our paths will continue to run quite closely, and I look forward to continued productive and enjoyable collaborations.
I also have every reason to believe that IBM will continue to be a valuable and essential part of the computing industry as it continues through its second century, especially given the recent addition of Red Hat to the IBM family.
But all that aside, I am eagerly looking forward to starting Facebook bootcamp next week. Which is said to involve one of those newfangled smartphones. ;-)
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Comments
I wish you all the luck(do you really need one??) for your new endeavor.
Thanks,
Bhaskar
No chance, not a minute chance Facebook, a CIA-created shop (with
the help of an undereducated front man, Zukenberg), allows an
independent, un-subverted development of Linux.
Linux independence has already been trampled a long time ago,
though, with the cancer of systemd, microsoftization of its
desktop, introduction of 'cloud' storage almost by default in
Ubuntu (a parasitic project in itself) and with uncontrollable
chains of updates (with pre-compiled and un-checkable packets
from God knows what maintainers).
..and wasn't there a core Linux developer responsible for randomness
generation, who refused to implement some change needed by the
NSA? - he got arrograntly eliminated through some liberal political
campaign of a cranky and fringe female nobody had ever heard about
before in the developer circles..
Facebook will ensure the sabotage will continue unabated.
Edited at 2019-10-02 02:25 pm (UTC)
Joel Nider
Me, I would not want to be the guy at Facebook with a asterisk beside his name saying "did not attend bootcamp". :-)