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Originally Posted by spasmo
Unintentional thread jack. Sorry, Dean.
I am pretty much in the middle of all four of those.
I didn't deal with the company directly, but supported some hardcore engineers who did. Anaconda was a life saver once things started to scale. From Anaconda came Kickstart, etc.
As for Yahoo and Google, they wouldn't hire me as they (obviously) knew what I've been up to since the mid 90s. A business partner of mine worked for IBM for some time.
Funny who you meet on GFY. Thanks for the flashback.  |
Also sorry for the hijack.
That's pretty awesome that we were two or so degrees away during that time. I loved the Anaconda project, etc, it was really some slick stuff. We employed the creators of the Python language (lock, stock, and barrel), so it was great meeting them and working side by side at the time.
The other cool thing was, during the course of business, I met the heads of many of the "biggie" companies using the language, as well as other luminaries like Richard Stallman (who spit split ends at me as we talked, then signed a T-Shirt -- something he RARELY does). Made some awesome VC contacts, and made good friends with our CEO, who helped develop the X Window system at Project Athena, and has authored tools himself that are used by many. The CEO is a top-notch guy, and I'm continually impressed with his abilities. He ended up being one of my references to Yale, and we've maintained a relationship since leaving the company.
During the course, also, we owned GNULinux.com, Python.org and Python.com (later illegally hijacked by a guy in Dallas and it went to the current owners -- we never DID get it back, sigh), PythonLabs.com, LinuxDEV.net ... lots of really cool stuff. I wouldn't trade the experience.