Story time! Zanzibar was not the original name of the system. It was originally called "Spice". I have read Dune more times than I can count and an access control system is designed so that people can safely share things, so the project motto was "the shares must flow"https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136626971566149633 …
-
Show this thread
-
Moving Google's access control logic and systems over to another system (new dependency for basically all of production!) and committing to a new semantic for access control (product implications!) was a big deal, so we went to my SVP's review meeting.
1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
And after the whole presentation, the presentation of a system which a whole bunch of people (including
@bstoler) thought would never work, my SVP had exactly one comment: we needed to rename the project. Because "Spice" was too porn-y. I was baffled. Everyone was.3 replies 2 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
Apparently there had been a "Spice channel" back in the 90s or something. None of us had that association, so hadn't flagged it. Project: approved. Name: denied. And now it's named Zanzibar, one of the spice islands.
8 replies 3 retweets 43 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @LeaKissner
In 2000, I worked at a company for one day (but that's another story). It was called Silicon Spice and every single person I've ever mentioned it to has given me a hard eyebrow.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ficus
OK, I need to hear this story. What did this company even do?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @LeaKissner
Chips for telecom systems! Terrible name. The story isn't that exciting - I chose to go there because I was burned out from working at a scrappy startup and it paid more than any job I had before.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ficus @LeaKissner
On my first day I concluded that the team I was working with were a bunch of jerks and I went home discouraged and came in the next day and said "Sorry, but I think I made a mistake."
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @ficus @LeaKissner
I remember being in a meeting where they said "we have to design an API for memory management" and I said "what's wrong with malloc?" and some dude witheringly and patronizingly said "thanks for the suggestion, but this is an embedded system".
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
My friends ribbed me when they sold to Broadcom in 2002 but quitting that job was one of the best things I ever did because within the same week @lockheimer referred me to Danger, a job that changed my life forever and made it possible for me to join Android at the beginning.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
