User: orwant

No, there aren't blacklists.

On: Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com)

I'm a longtime Google manager. Here's what I wrote on an internal Google mailing list:

There are no blacklists.

If you trace back where this notion came from, it was a claim that there was one manager who allegedly kept a list of people they didn't want to work with. Seems plausible. But that's it. If one wants to call that a blacklist, OK, but it shouldn't be interpreted as an institutionalized phenomenon at Google.

Re:Uh...

On: Google Patents Displaying Patents

There's a time lag between when the USPTO issues a patent and when Google receives the data from the USPTO. It'll be live soon.

-Jon (Google Patents guy)

Re:Not exactly...

On: The Perl Journal Bought by CMP

Actually, Taco's comment is fair. Yes, strictly speaking I did get TPJ back from EarthWeb in April. That was legal closure, but not quite relax-and-kick-back closure.

Running TPJ myself is impossible given my busy day job at O'Reilly. So relax-and-kick-back closure meant finding a good permanent home for the magazine, which I'm happy to say is now the case.

Re:All that and a free subscription to SysAdmin

On: The Perl Journal Bought by CMP

It'll stay a physically separate magazine. What "supplement" means is that it'll be bagged with Sys Admin in the stores, and internally CMP will have one infrastructure for both Sys Admin and TPJ to save on costs.

Re:"The matter is in the courts", translated

On: The Status Of The Perl Journal

That's not accurate, Bruce. I have never owned any stock in EarthWeb.

Jon Orwant

Re:What about Larry Wall?

On: Perl Community To Buy Damian Conway?

We (O'Reilly) already pay Larry to work on Perl full time.

-Jon