November 2010
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THE DARK LORD DOES NOT SIT AT A CONFERENCE TABLE! →
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The final straw.
My point in writing the post is essentially twofold. First, collectively as a citizenry we’ve gone the last decade signing off on any number of things that would earlier have been considered unthinkable in the interests of preventing terrorist attacks. Whatever your political persuasion or level of risk aversion, we’re collectively on the line for that. And it not only includes vast...
“The infant death rate in east central Edmonton is roughly on par with that of...”
– Edmonton Journal: Paula Simons
“Facebook is the new Google – as in, they are building up an army of the best...”
– Ray Sun “Why Facebook Badly Needs Steve Jobs”
I think another way to put this is that the traditional Silicon Valley recruiting arms race focuses on the wrong problem: it treats engineering talent as the pearl of great price, when in fact it’s actually taste. After a certain point, stockpiling... 