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Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Among Victims of Everest Avalanche
alphadogg writes: Dan Fredinburg, privacy director for the company's Google X team, and an engineer who worked on many of Google's most exciting projects during his 8 years with the company, died over the weekend in an avalanche on Mount Everest. The 33-year-old worked on projects such as Google Loon, the company's balloon-based Internet access effort and self-driving car. He also was involved in Google Street View Everest, leading expeditions to gather imagery of the Khumbu region around Mt. Everest. Fredinburg's career began in a much less glamorous fashion as a "dock rat" and as a farm hand in Arkansas.
Climbing Everest is stupid, irresponsible, dangerous, pointless task
To be fair, slashmydots thinks the same thing of leaving the basement.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
That's too bad. Why is this on slashdot?
Google is a company that does a few things with internet technology. Here's their website if you're interested in checking them out: http://www.google.com
Not trying to be a web design critic here, but somebody should be fucking fired for that homepage. Like a single search box is supposed to tell me something about a company named Google?
(Pretend you had never heard of Google. Now you might understand just how fucking stupid it is to direct someone to google.com to learn about Google)
I'm just waiting for someone with money to bring the situation to its obvious parodic conclusion and be carried up to the top on a gilded litter dressed like Xerces.
"...but Republicans plan to come back with a new plan, where they just slash the tires on all the ambulances."
Guess you are a hipster, then.
You sound like the insecure dumb kids back in junior high school. If my crime is sounding smarter than you're comfortable with, mission accomplished.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"