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At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40
theodp writes "Google faces an imminent California Supreme Court decision on whether an age discrimination suit against it can go forward. But that hasn't kept the company from patting itself on the back for how it supports 'Greyglers' — that's any Googler over 40. At a company of about 20,000 full-time employees, there were at last count fewer than 200 formally enrolled Greyglers working to 'make Google culture ... welcome to people of all ages.'"
Texting is useful in lots of circumstances, but perhaps they're not relevant to your lifestyle.
- Communication without disturbing anyone nearby (on public transport, during lessons at school, in the office)
- Communications when the recipient is busy, or might be busy, but can respond later
- A note that doesn't need a reply when the sender doesn't want to be drawn into a conversation (e.g. text parent/partner to say you'll be late)
All of these could be done as well or better by email, but all phones support SMS and only some support email.
He got a PHD from CMU in CS, which is likely the best college for CS.
He invented the scribe text formatting language.
He invented the router, which became the first cisco router.
He co-founded what eventually became Adobe.
While at DEC, he and his group invented the altavista search engine.
There is more, but he clearly has serious computer science talents and vision.