[hammerzeit]

This headline is a little misleading, in that it suggests Abe went from being an engineer at Google to being an engineer at the Tribune. My memory is that Abe was in a technical specialist role at Google -- deeply involved in technical things, writing code sometimes -- but not in the formal engineering organization.

None of that harms his points, which I think are quite sound, and the actual article does not imply Abe was a full-time engineer at Google, but the HN title does seem to connote it.

[tsunamifury]

Splitting hairs so small they aren't even worth mentioning.

[knowtheory]

Neat, that's useful to know, could you maybe describe the difference in a little more detail?

[abrahamepton]

Well, as the Abe in question, I can explain a bit :) I was a tech specialist on the News team. I worked with a team that managed the publications included in Google News, and specifically I worked on the technical side of the publisher inclusion process. It was nowhere near the kind of crazy-impressive engineering being done by the folks technically in the engineering organization, but I was writing code and maintaining infrastructure.