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Why is Google publishing this?

It's late but I'm confused why anyone would spend time doing this, and since it is in the official Google repository, presumably someone at Google was actually doing it on paid time.

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The author has a fascinating discussion of basic on his blog.

https://flagxor.com/article/source-code

I might be coming around to the why of this.

Sidenote, that is one obnoxious color scheme :/

And width. I have an ultrawide display, really not a good reading experience. Newspapers put text in columns for a reason.

Looks fine in lynx on a 80x25 terminal ;)

I spent a few seconds thinking it was one of those popup overlays and looking for the close button

If you're using Firefox, use the reader mode.

> since it is in the official Google repository, presumably someone at Google was actually doing it on paid time

Unlikely. Google (like many companies) assert ownership of everything their employees create, even on their free time. There are plenty of projects under Google organization that have no other affiliation with Google.

For that reason I sincerely hope that those unofficial projects go to another dedicated org (say, `google-unofficial`). It is so much confusing.

I had this question all the time. I agree, they should do something like google20p, which would have the side effect of advertising the fact that 20 percent still exists.

Ouch, I had no idea. Is this true of all of FAANG? :/

It might be a 20% project. Also, there is a process to clarify / obtain the copyright: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/

I thought 20% time has been gone for years.

> I'm confused why anyone would spend time doing this

Plain, good, old fun?

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