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googoobabyon Why I Left Microsoft

Nothing at all wrong with the 'myth' part/trope, but sorry to say it, the ly thing seemed douche-y when it 1st appeared and hasn't aged well.

googoobabyon Why I Left Microsoft

May I ask why the awful 'ly' startup name?

googoobabyon Muslim cyber attackers give attacks on banks a name: Operation Ababil

Is it too much to expect a little more cleverness from our Pizza Hut tablecloth-on-head brethren? Instead of Operation Yabba-dabba-do (or whatever), Operation Prophet and Loss?

googoobabyon Is Facebook burnout finally igniting?

Meet the Goo boss, same as the Zuck boss

googoobabyon Marissa Mayer Only Gave Google 30 Minutes Notice Before She Quit

I wonder what she pays her PR staff. Every time she has a bowel movement, it seems to show up as a businessinsider.com exclusive.

googoobabyon Alibaba CTO: Google has strayed from its ‘Don’t be evil’ motto

And certainly Chinese companies know evil when they see it.

googoobabyon Help Kickstart a Hackerspace in Iraq - 2 days to go

Arduino for IED control?

googoobabyon Richard Stallman's Bank Account

He keeps all his savings in the form of bath soap.

googoobabyon Facebook is the Jurassic Park of startups.

Is "hacker-idealist" the paleontologese for "sociopath"?

googoobabyon Linux C/C++ development in VM versus Linux desktop...

A Linux VM has worked for me for some time now. I reached my limit dealing with the horrible desktops and switched to Windows on my laptop, which has worked well. Plus I like having totally portable development VMs.

googoobabyon The Invention of Email

This guy is becoming a famous net kook. Perhaps he should be on a plinth next to Sergar Argic.

googoobabyon The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How Shirls Fooled The Valley

http://gawker.com/5938904/notorious-silicon-valley-fraud-shi...

googoobabyon TechCrunch is a bully

http://gawker.com/5938904/notorious-silicon-valley-fraud-shi...

She's apparently the bane (or Bain) of the Republicans now

googoobabyon TechCrunch is a bully

Seriously. You expect me to cry over a hustler's lies? It is amusing how recursively narcissistic the tech community is, but eventually even they reach their stack limit.

googoobabyon Tech Billionaire Milner Aims to Accelerate Progress by Bankrolling Science

What's next? The Putin Fund for the Promotion of Punk Rock?

googoobabyon Ask HN:Is Elon Musk the closest person we have comparable to Steve Jobs?

Is Elon that bad of a human being?

googoobabyon Amazon ramps up hiring for its social games studio (also in SF)

"Furthermore, Business Insider recently reported claims from unnamed Zynga insiders about Amazon’s desire to hire Zynga employees."

Of course they want to hire employees already comfortable working for a sweatshop.

googoobabyon Yahoo Is Hiring

http://www.businessinsider.com/forget-iphones-and-free-food-...

This isn't the team slated for the deathmarch is it?

googoobabyon Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World — IBM Is

"But I don’t think Jobs would see much pleasure in winning by such means. I’d instead expect he’d want to win the prize based upon the performance of the company and beat the rest without an asterisk next to the record."

What a load of crap. I fully remember when Jobs tried to define NeXT as a if not the leading workstation company by twiddling the definition of workstation to exclude Sun and HP/Apollo.

googoobabyon Israeli discovery explains why smoking slows down development of Parkinson's

Doubtless they'll next prove that rudeness is also a preventative, hence the low incidence of Parkinson's in Israel.

googoobabyon Culture Clash

She of course is "putting more emphasis on colleges, grades and testing for hires". Because that makes so much difference.

googoobabyon Is Cold Fusion Finally Being Accepted by Scientists?

No - note the article isn't actually a CNBC story but is syndicated from some 5th rate website.

googoobabyon Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing

This guy is _so_ hungry for press attention. I soon expect to see headlines shouting, "Wozniak: Storm coming, rain falling". When someone hasn't accomplished anything notable since the Carter Administration, one should fade away.

googoobabyon Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?

Is founding Facebook a sign you're a sociopath?

googoobabyon How the Islamic world gave us coffee and democracy

They don't seem to want their democracy back.

googoobabyon Boeing and NASA Look at LENRs for Green-Powered Aircraft

So the government is wasting our tax dollars on cold fusion scams? Oh, wait, "e-Cat" is going to save us all, hallelujah.

googoobabyon Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It

Google will just acqui-hire new talent.

googoobabyon Scott Weiss Replaces Marc Andreessen on Mixed Media Lab's Board

Talk about a tempest in a teapot. A teapot fit for a doll's house too.

googoobabyon Is Phoenix The Next Silicon Valley?

Is Pyongyang?

googoobabyon John Doerr: Coursera 'Could Be Big The Way Google Was'

Doerr also said Segway would hit $1B in sales faster than any company in history. I'd look out the window if he told me the weather.