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Google's Turn To Be The Villain
caesar79 writes "The New York Times has an article titled "Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain" (also evil but at least free registration required) According to the article, the "go-getting" attitude of Google is coming across as arrogance to many people in the Valley. More importantly, it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."
Sure thats going to make your average coder hate google...
I disagree. I think Microsoft earned their title, and I doubt it's gonna go away. I'd like to think that the Google invasion is going over more like the story in Doom3:
Or something to that effect, anyways.
...you type the URL into Google. Irony at it's best. :)
...because we can't let the worthless peons below "suit" level make more money, god forbid. Sorry, but coders do the REAL work(tm) and should be making at least 75-90% of what execs currently do. Whereas execs should be making about 60-75% of their current pay.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
{emote=scream style=Kahn}Googleeeeeeeeeeeeeee!{/emote}
You know it was coming.
Btw, nice Stewart style there.
Hmmm witty sig or funny sig? Maybe elitest techy sig!
I for one, welcome our new borg overlord.
Wait a minute...
Yes! Because as everybody knows, being paid peanuts is the right and moral thing to do!
Leave that "feeding your family" garbage at home and work for nothing, and know that you're doing the right thing!
Google has ordered it's PR staff to decline any interviews from /. editors...
Hmmm witty sig or funny sig? Maybe elitest techy sig!
1. Copy story location.
2. Paste into google search
3. click on link that appears on the google search page.
4. ???
5. Profit
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
"When I meet with venture capitalists, or if I'm engaged in a conversation about going into partnership with someone, inevitably the question is, 'Why couldn't Google do what you're doing?' " said Craig Donato, the founder and chief executive of Oodle, a site for searching online classified listings more quickly.
Geez, I wonder why the VC's always think of Google during our presentation for a search company named Oodle??
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Google is a terrorist organization. Their plot is to systematically (subversively) destroy the IT Sector by employing all the best talent. They'll have a *monopoly* on intellect! You want smarts? You gotta pay da Google. You'll never be able to pry the Scientists from their clutches... They hypnotically keep them there by way of shiny trinkets, coin, and free gourmet meals... No one can escape. We're all going to have dumb workers. We'll never succeed. Google must be stopped! They hate our freedom!
geeks are cats who dig a certain kind of cool
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
I know Google is now competing with MSFT, YHOO, and AOL. But when did they take on EA?
Wanna do it with news.google.com? Didn't think so.
but I thought irony was like rain on your wedding day?
You sly dog: you got me monologuing! - Syndrome
"How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"
I didn't know my manager read slashdot!!
-Valiss
Could you open an office out where I live??
Its not like Bill Gates ever killed anyone.
Did he?
No offense if you're reading this Mr. Gates. I mean, heck, I'm one of your biggest fans.
please don't kill me.
Klink would be more like HOOOOOGAN!!!!
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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Nope. Remember it well. That was one reason I used to like Microsoft.
I think the "wellspring of all evil" is sub-contracted under licence. Every now and then Satan takes a look at his minion-in-chief and holds a review to see if they've been performing up to expectations. Every now and then, the licence gets withdrawn and appliations are invited for a new Wellspring.
But according to sources in Hell (who do not wish to be named) even if Google starts now with the Microsoft class bastardry, Bill's tenure is reckoned to be good for another ten years.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
ka-ching!
If this is bad, then good must really be awful.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
psst, that was Kirk
According to highly credible sources, upset Google employees everywhere are demanding lower pay, citing heavy feelings of insult for the rediculous amount of money they are receiving for the minor, unimaginative work they are involved in.
Google has locked the doors of all their development houses from the inside, fearing massive defection to more reasonable companies that tell their employees exactly what to do and when, eliminating the stifling processes of having to be creative. Updates to follow soon.
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This tripe sounds like the same kind of crap that the US right wing elements spew towards the left...
"Cindy Sheehan weakens america by helping the insurgance sustain there fight longer, by protesting for peace."
"Google is evil, they pay people too well..." they might as well be union-fucking-labour they are SO evil...
Meanwhile, right-wing Christian nutter Pat Robertson wants to asassinate the democratically leader elected foreign country because they don't share a american enough view of the world. He's a fucking saint.
I for one miss Soviet Russia when there was at least something else to compare propagada too!
I for one, welcome our new borg overlord.
Wait a minute...
You're right. You should have said "We, for one" instead.
Don't sweat it, dude. They just didn't hire because you can't even spell "ridiculous".
Good! Great! Higher salaries all around! Make it so expensive to exist in CA that the whole fscking economy implodes and I can afford to move back home!
"I'M SORRY CALIFORNIA, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING WHEN I LEFT!!!!!11one" he said, as he watched his friends' and family's houses appreciate 20% per year for a decade.
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