YouTube Instant Creator Accepts Job At YouTube
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I'm pretty curious if we'll be able to spot his 'fingerprint' in the features that youtube will roll out over the next period.
(congrats to the kid in any case)
>Aboukhadijeh will continue to attend Stanford while he works at the company.
Because of his imagination. Stupid idea, but worth millions. Innovative people are hard to find.
He also validated for them that users want YouTube Instance without the company doing any work or taking any risks. For this reason alone, he deserves more than a job offer.
He get's a job YouTube while finishing his education at Stanford. Sounds like a good deal. I don't see the downside.
What's with the sour grapes?
I was equally leery for the same reason. I've made tons of apps that bound events and pulled/updated data from cache layers I had setup.
Apparently I didn't have the good sense to be a shameless self-promoter.
This is frankly exemplary of the one thing I don't like about HN, even though I dearly love the community here.
The emphasis on typical business values, rather than on true productivity and hard work agonizes my conscience on a regular basis.
It makes me nauseous to think he got such publicity and a job offer for that.
I hate to be sour about it, but damn.
S'like hiring a B-school kid because he completed a rudimentary business plan, rendered it into PDF, and put it online and it happened to go viral for some absurd reason.
Honestly, I'd never intentionally hire anyone with your attitude.
I've made an app that gets around the lack of transactions in MySQL MyISAM and allows auditing of arbitrary django ORM models with logs.
I wrote a micro-compiler last night using llvm and my own lexer, parser, and tokenizer.
I simply don't write things that are necessarily "accessible" to the general public, and I don't go out of my way to promote them.
The fact that I'm leery of people who are aggressive self-promoters or opportunistic doesn't mean I'm "jealous", I don't actually want to work for Google.
I'm leery because in past experience, the aggressive self-promoters are covering for a lack of something, whether it be scruples or technical aptitude.
I was making an observation and expressing reservation, you're outright saying you wouldn't hire me.
But hey, lesson learned, I'll just make one-off apps that don't actually do anything and promote the shit out of them.
God forbid someone express reservations about the enthusiasm over relatively unproductive demonstrations without getting publicly hammered by a well known startup personality.
You shame yourself and demonstrate why many programmers I know don't take Silicon Valley seriously.
Hm, I was under the impression Facebook didn't allow side projects. I suppose this doesn't apply to interns?
Not allowing side projects is opposing a force of nature.
Silly move by facebook.
In fact, your best interns probably do have side projects.
I'm firmly of the belief that this is very good for Silicon Valley. How many people do you know who work at a job and a startup on the side? In California that generally won't get you in trouble. Elsewhere?
"No, according to California Labor Code 2870, even if you use your own time/equipment, your project still belongs to IBM if your project relates to IBM's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development.
So if you think that your project is not close to anything that IBM is or will be involved in, you can tell your manager about it, and if they agree with your assessment, then you can tell me your project and I will try to get it cleared for you. In my experience though, it is hard to get clearance because IBM is involved in practically everything, esp. in the software field."
My manager was ok with it, but the IBM lawyers wouldn't clear it. I doubt they would have pursued any legal actions if I continued working on it, but I figured I'd rather not chance it and let it go.
[1] It was a FOSS Firefox add-on called Map+. IBM had a team somewhere that worked on Firefox add-ons, so even though I wasn't on, near, or had access to that team, it was a no go.
Lawyers are in the business of convincing people that the law says what they want it to say. However in the case of a dispute it doesn't matter what IBM's lawyer says, it matters what a judge thinks. So of course if you ask IBM's lawyers, they'll represent IBM's interests by making the broadest possible claims for what is IBM's. That doesn't make them right, nor does it mean that they would actually pursue it. But as long as they leave you convinced, they've accomplished their goal.
That said, they are correct that the statute gives them that way to claim your work. And the larger the company you're in, the broader that claim can become. And when you listen to their lawyers, the claim will become broader still. Putting that all together, I wouldn't take their word for anything without consulting your own lawyer who represents your interests.
Alternately, if it is important to you, you always have the option of telling your manager that this issue is important to you, and you're willing to leave your job if that is what is needed so you can work on your own project. In that situation it is amazing what miracles can happen once it is made clear to the lawyers that giving you the freedom you want is actually in IBM's interest. (Advice from lawyers is very frequently penny wise and pound foolish. The smarter the business, the more strongly they realize that.)
Depending on the current job market at the time, it may be advisable to line up another job option before attempting such drastic action.
Ouch. Does that mean Facebook own the rights?
Because IT staff are not much more than slaves in our world: anything you create while employed is property of the employer, even if the work is done in your own time.
Is it just an AJAX-based Youtube search autocomplete that pulls up the results and then makes am autoplaying playlist?
Google is a big mess of hierarchy, (yes, they're much better than the average -- that's not saying much). Their "eternal" startup mantra is just that. Looks like the world has lost yet another good hacker to the halls of the Googleplex.
I hope he loves it. Unfortunately, I don't think he will.
Kudos to all the work put in for YouTube Instant. Good luck to your future at YouTube!
He's a free agent, he made this little project, got offered a job at a very prestigious company, has his name on the map for the future and a reference that will open doors for a long long time to come (being offered a job directly by the head of the video division of Google, formerly an entrepreneur himself is likely not a daily occurrence).
Poor guy indeed.
Somehow I feel this isn't the last we've heard of him, and I wish him the best of luck with what he'll do there, and I don't doubt that if he ever decides to go solo that he'll find a lot of people willing to back his (ad)ventures.
There are much worse things to happen to you than this.
Money could make him comfortable where otherwise he would be hacking. I was hoping that didn't happen, and he uses it as another opportunity.
"Poor guy"? Maybe that was over the top. Maybe it wasn't. We will see.
Plus a few ideas on the back-burner.
I like the lisbeautiful concept, that's got a positive vibe to it. Profitable?
Good for you man, make a go of it there.
Was HN your 'launch spot' ?
I can see how you'd choose FB over Google coming in from the outside but if you get the chance to work with both it seems like a smart choice.
I don't blame him for taking the job. I just hope he keeps up his entrepreneur's spirit. He's already shown an entrepreneurial bent, just imagine what he might have done on his own. (Based on what he did, it could have been wonderful.)
I was wrong, and the patience of HN people is amazing. Thanks.
I think there is always danger when you take an 8-5 job that you begin to lose your desire to "hack"; I don't think he will. I can't wait to see his work, and, as always, wish him the very best.
I'd also like to point out that startups can cause hackers to lose the desire to "hack" as well. After the initial stages, so much time is required on other things that hacking often falls by the wayside, and often is never really picked up again.
Also, are you familiar with the term, "the sum is greater than the parts?" Pooling resources and talent is often more effective than trying to do everything on your own.