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Hard Knocks, Age Transform Marc Andreessen
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Marc Andreessen, the brain behind Netscape, has spent the past several years engaged in an old-fashioned pursuit: rebuilding a traditional software company, Opsware, and trying to make it profitable, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'That he is making progress will be evident next week when the company expects to report a hefty quarterly revenue increase. In the process, he has settled down personally, morphing from technical whiz kid into serious businessman — the kind who delegates authority, makes sales calls in suits and dabbles in philanthropy. His experience helping bring Opsware back from the brink of financial disaster — in 2001, the company, then called Loudcloud Inc., staged a disappointing IPO and later had to completely overhaul its business to stay afloat — also has been formative, those who know him say.'"
Look up your favorite picture of Garfield. Then look up your favorite picture of Bill the Cat.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Why, Mr. Andreessen? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than just your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Andreessen. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Andreessen. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Andreessen? Why?! Why do you persist!?
the kind who delegates authority,
Yup. That's one of the first signs.
makes sales calls in suits
That's the seventh sign, unless you're hasidic, then it's the third, although gnostics numer it fourth.
and dabbles in philanthropy.
And that's the bottom. Darth Vader gave lots of surplus Imperial cheese to orphans. Emperor Ming would write checks to the Mongo Salvation Army. And then there's Ronald McDonald House as an attempt to karmically balance the hideous doings of that evil clown. It's all just a front.
Who else read "Oopsware" instead of "Opsware"?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
So does Taco Bell, but no one apologizes for them.
...hard work and actual vision of people like Tim Berners-Lee .
Uh I think you misspelt Al Gore's name
I Like Pie...
Zonk cut the original headline short- it was supposed to read:
"Hard Knocks, Age Transform Marc Andreessen into giant battle robot!"
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