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Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'

Posted by Zonk on from the doubling-the-doubled-growth-rate dept.

eldavojohn writes "Steve Ballmer spoke to the Seattle PI this week, commenting that Google's pace of employee growth is 'insane,' and the company has few successful businesses outside of Internet search and advertising. He referred to Google's non-search efforts as 'cute.' Google's current number of employees is nearly doubling each year. 'I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.' Mr. Ballmer went on complain that, in general, competition for good programmers has become an issue. Even 'hedge funds' are looking for skilled coders, making the HR fight between the two companies that much more challenging."

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  1. once.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    once i went to school with this big black guy he wore glasses and had a fro like all bluckguys had in the 80's he was very tall and big but no fat we called him cheesecakes brown and we assumed he had a phenomenal penis

    kthxbye

  2. And aside from that... Balmer is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    'I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.'


    How can he say that? Doesn't he remember the free-wheeling and heady days of the dot-bomb era, with it's mantra of "making money don't matter"? And who could forget all the progress made by Enron and Worldcom, with their mantra of "laws don't matter". And the apex of the random collection of stooges with the Bush administration and their fiscal conservative mantra of "deficits don't matter"?

    And everyone is still playing that great game by "design is king" John Carmack, who made all of us his bitches with the smash hit "Daikatana". Also, the random collection of people have brought the world it's #1 operating system, Linux. No longer are we shackled to the tyrany of a single text editor! No longer do we have to deal with the horrors of having new hardware automatically detected and configured! No longer do we have the ability to buy quality software!

    So excuse me, I'm going to play Diakatana on my Lunix boxen: it's great being the bitch of both Lunis Tornballs and John Carmack!!!
  3. Re:Robotic, cookie cutter hiring by Vexorian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, seriously, you won't solve any of google's problems with dijkstra, and you would seriously not solve them after reading a book either.

    --

    Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
  4. fuck off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck off you little jealous hippie cocksucker

    i'm surprised you took the cock out of your mouth long enough to post your little whiny rant