Okay, so if it was a trade secret, that's trouble. But people will give away all sorts of information all the time. That's what the network is for.
If you want to publish a blog post on something, it's really involved. You have to make your vendors look good, your engineering team look good, and then there'll be this army of people on HN and Reddit who will nitpick everything so that you lose any of the good will you generate.
Wayyy better to just use private channels to exchange that information. So, if I'm considering data pipeline stuff I'll just hop on Discord with my friends and ask them how it went at their company and they'll just tell me.
Obviously none of us will tell the rest of the world, but we'll tell each other. Heck, strangers will do that in SF and Silicon Valley in general. Most people easily understand what parts are MNPI and what is company-private IP and what isn't. Until Xiaomi or Huawei or whatever stole that bloody robotic arm off T-Mobile even big companies would routinely officially sanction this information sharing.
You don’t understand anything about fused fiber. There’s no useful theory. Everything is process art and exact replication. It’s probably true in semiconductors too. TMC and Intel use the same equipment vendors.
No, I don't understand anything about fused fibre. Just want to clarify that part. I'm talking about the idea of sharing info rather than the specific case, for which I have no knowledge. Not pretending to know that.
For lots of software too it's just the real mechanism of stuff. I've definitely straight copied infrastructure code from friends at other companies. Not hardware process stuff certainly but it's straight plagiarism.
And honestly, I don't understand what the significance of "Then I realized Silicon Valley is immersed in a sea of electrons..." Is. I thought it was just colour but clearly you intend some significance to it.
If you want to publish a blog post on something, it's really involved. You have to make your vendors look good, your engineering team look good, and then there'll be this army of people on HN and Reddit who will nitpick everything so that you lose any of the good will you generate.
Wayyy better to just use private channels to exchange that information. So, if I'm considering data pipeline stuff I'll just hop on Discord with my friends and ask them how it went at their company and they'll just tell me.
Obviously none of us will tell the rest of the world, but we'll tell each other. Heck, strangers will do that in SF and Silicon Valley in general. Most people easily understand what parts are MNPI and what is company-private IP and what isn't. Until Xiaomi or Huawei or whatever stole that bloody robotic arm off T-Mobile even big companies would routinely officially sanction this information sharing.