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Garrett D'Amore
Worked at DEY Storage Systems, Inc.
Attended UC Berkeley
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If you follow illumos very closely, you may already know some of this. A New Fork Several months ago, I forked illumos-gate (the primary source code repository for the kernel and system components of illumos) into illumos-co...
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Your language sucks...
As a result of work I've been doing for illumos , I've recently gotten re-engaged with internationalization, and the support for this in libc and localedef (I am the original author for our localedef.) I've decided that human languages suck.  Some suck wors...
As a result of work I've been doing for illumos, I've recently gotten re-engaged with internationalization, and the support for this in libc and localedef (I am the original author for our localedef.) I've decided that human ...
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I have just spent an all-nighter doing something I didn't expect to do. I've "modernized" less(1).  (That link is to the changeset.) First off, let me explain the motivation.  We need a pager for illumos that can meet the req...
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I want to give folks a status update on the illumos corporate entity. In a nutshell, the corporate entity seems to be failing to have traction.  In particular, the various corporate contributors  and downstreams for illumos...
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During the first days of October 2012, we had an illumos day, and a one day illumos hackathon that was very well attended by some of the best and brightest in our community (and I daresay, in any open...
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A better illumos...
If you follow illumos very closely, you may already know some of this. A New Fork Several months ago, I forked illumos-gate (the primary source code repository for the kernel and system components of illumos) into illumos-core . I had started upstreaming my...
If you follow illumos very closely, you may already know some of this. A New Fork Several months ago, I forked illumos-gate (the primary source code repository for the kernel and system components of illumos) into illumos-co...
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My Problem with Feminism
I'm going to say some things here that may be controversial.  Certainly that headline is.  But please, bear with me, and read this before you judge too harshly. As another writer said, 2014 has been a terrible year for women in tech.  (Whether in the indust...
I'm going to say some things here that may be controversial.  Certainly that headline is.  But please, bear with me, and read this before you judge too harshly. As another writer said, 2014 has been a terrible year for women ...
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Modernizing "less"
I have just spent an all-nighter doing something I didn't expect to do. I've " modernized " less (1).  (That link is to the changeset.) First off, let me explain the motivation.  We need a pager for illumos that can meet the requirements for POSIX IEEE 2003...
I have just spent an all-nighter doing something I didn't expect to do. I've "modernized" less(1).  (That link is to the changeset.) First off, let me explain the motivation.  We need a pager for illumos that can meet the req...
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Yay, NFS lock manager is finally open! :-)
Yesterday, with very little fanfare, illumos passed an important milestone. This milestone was the integration of 195 Need replacement for nfs/lockd+klm This is work that I originally tasked Gordon Ross and Dan Kruchinin to w...
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The ZFS code in illumos has gained another differentiator thanks to the hard work of Saso, who integrated LZ4 improved compression into our code base. This is a nice achievement, and enhanced compress...
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A couple of months ago I purchased the rather expensive pair of Apple in-ear earphones, to replace an older pair of standard earbuds I'd given to someone else. They never fit my ear correctly, and I ...
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Software Architect
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  • DEY Storage Systems, Inc.
    VP Engineering, 2012 - 2014
  • Nexenta Systems
    Director of Engineering, 2010 - 2012
  • Oracle
    Software Engineer, 2009 - 2010
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Tadpole Computer
  • Qualcomm
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Winchester, CA
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Laguna Niguel, CA - San Diego, CA - Berkeley, CA - St. Croix, USVI - Laguna Niguel, CA - Anaheim, CA
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Code first, questions later.
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  • UC Berkeley
  • San Diego State University
  • Dana Hills High School
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