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IT Execs On Their Dream Dinner Guests

Posted by samzenpus on from the guess-who's-coming-to-dinner dept.

StewBeans writes: In this lighthearted article for the holiday, IT executives were asked, if they could invite any technologist living or deceased to their Thanksgiving dinner, who would they invite and why? One CTO said that he'd invite the CTO of Amazon, Werner Vogels, so he could hear his thoughts on the future of cloud computing. Another would invite Ratan Tata, who he calls the "Bill Gates of India." Other responses range from early visionaries like Grace Hopper and Vint Cerf to the mysterious inventors/designers of the Roland TR-808.

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  1. I don't know about this premise by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2

    I really don't want to listen to someone ramble on and on with their mouth full of food.

    Perhaps inviting them to hang out afterward would be a better idea.

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  2. Alan Turing? by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Show Alan Turing how his own work and discoveries, indirectly widely used today, are of major importance. And also, maybe ask him what he thinks about the "posthumous pardon" he was granted from the queen, only 61 years after his death...

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  3. Re:The real Bill Gates of India by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    A lot of non-IT people don't know what a jerk Gates was. He was brilliant at killing off competitors using targeted sell-at-loss campaigns, bait-and-switch "standards", bundling, and locking one in to product upgrade cycles.

    But that stagnated business software evolution and robbed the market of choice. I bet he'd make a great military general.

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  4. Re:My dream dinner guest is the one... by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 2

    So, Leonardo da Vinci? Why not, as long as he doesn't mind switching from Italian to either English or French.

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  5. Re:Hannibal Lechter by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 2

    At least you don't have to prepare anything, as long as you attend the diner.

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  6. Why I'm not an IT Exec by Jack+Griffin · · Score: 2

    My choice of dinner date would be a table full of porn chicks and a bag of coke. Who wants to talk shop outside of work hours?

    1. Re:Why I'm not an IT Exec by laejoh · · Score: 2

      I work for the IRS you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:The real Bill Gates of India by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't the Bill Gates of India be Satya Nadella?

  8. Lennart Poettering by lucm · · Score: 2

    I would spend the whole time giving him ideas like bashd, which would includes commands such as:
    -lsctl
    -rmctl
    -victl

    and I'd also suggest that he starts working on PulseWifi, because just like audio and daemons, wifi is something that needs to be reinvented.

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  9. Re:Lisa Faulkner when she was 20 by lucm · · Score: 2

    You seem to have a thing for chicks who have an unusually large amount of space between their eyes. Do you have a fly or ant fetish?

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  10. Re:serviscope_minor is off today by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

    You are in the "I think this milk is off" sense.

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