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Hixie · 2011-01-17 02:40:56

You don't have to work at Google to ask me a question. Just mail me (ian@hixie.ch), I'm quite happy to help people out. Just make sure you read the relevant spec first, since that's where I'll be pointing you (whether you work at Google or not) if it contains the answer to your question.

edit: Or as someone else pointed out, ask on IRC. The #whatwg channel on Freenode is where I mainly hang out.

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kerneis | karma 780 | avg karma 6.09 · | 2021-05-25 12:15:58+00:00

For what it's worth, a few Google engineers are hanging around so if you have any specific technical question I think we'd be glad to answer it :-)

dman | karma 7331 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2013-03-13 14:55:53

If you want any questions answered, I would be happy to ask them to the relevant google teams while I am at IO.

markhall | karma 644 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2013-05-12 20:12:17

I'm at Google and would be interested in helping as well. My email is in my profile. Let me know if I could help.

ahmetyas01 | karma 13 | avg karma 0.41 · | 2019-08-17 20:56:46+00:00

any google worker here?

Hisoka | karma 389 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2011-07-22 19:33:03+00:00

Anyone working in Google with an answer to this question?

mtlynch | karma 10765 | avg karma 9.18 · | 2018-02-28 14:40:26+00:00

Author here. Happy to answer any questions about the post or about my experience at Google.

jrockway | karma 72069 | avg karma 3.74 · | 2012-11-08 06:42:33+00:00

I work at Google :)

therealmarv | karma 4384 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2016-08-09 16:07:51+00:00

hey, other google users which are volunteers are answering all your questions. You are not supposed to talk directly to Google! ;)

opless | karma 754 | avg karma 1.01 · | 2014-12-16 11:58:26+00:00

I'm sure googlers read this forum and may reach out to you.

cloudwalking | karma 3480 | avg karma 5.45 · | 2012-10-17 13:58:23

I work at Google.

thedeuce | karma -6 | avg karma -0.02 · | 2011-05-17 08:40:11

Well of course since you work for Google, I wouldn't expect any other answer ;p

ep103 | karma 4056 | avg karma 4.71 · | 2016-08-11 15:31:39+00:00

Unfortunately, I don't work for Google. But if you're offering... :)

iamtheworstdev | karma 422 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2022-01-13 08:53:20

are you a google developer? ;-)

hellbanner | karma 1725 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2015-09-02 15:15:53

Does anyone reading this work at Google?

cosgroveb | karma 1790 | avg karma 5.66 · | 2011-01-17 05:09:34+00:00

>One of the most commonly cited perks of being at Google is the ability to ask anything of anyone. Have a question about HTML 5? Shoot hixie an e-mail. Digging into the internals of Python? Guido works there, as do a number of other core Pythonistas. Building a Go app? Rob Pike can answer.

I think you make some really good points - but I would like to mention that you can also get feedback from really smart people in our field and lots of people working on projects like these by participating in mailing lists and hanging out on IRC.

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jshen | karma 5007 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2015-01-28 04:24:22

Do you work at google?

wand3r | karma 2501 | avg karma 3.75 · | 2018-08-05 16:45:56

Do you work at Google?

sitkack | karma 14538 | avg karma 1.82 · | 2018-08-23 00:52:19

Do you work for Google?

jiuahweruihawi | karma 30 | avg karma 0.94 · | 2020-12-03 09:40:22+00:00

Do you work for Google?