Do no evil, but sod the staff
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I feel sorry for the DoubleClick staff who have been laid off.
Well, i agree that it sucks to lose one's job. But... i have a really hard time working sympathy (for anyone besides myself) and thoughts of DoubleClick into the same thought. The company existed to advertise other people's products on other people's sites. That's what it's been known for, and if it produced anything of value on the side, well, this'll be the first i've heard of it.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Shog9 wrote:
Well, i agree that it sucks to lose one's job. But... i have a really hard time working sympathy (for anyone besides myself) and thoughts of DoubleClick into the same thought. The company existed to advertise other people's products on other people's sites. That's what it's been known for, and if it produced anything of value on the side, well, this'll be the first i've heard of it.
You heartless swine. Don't you know that they'll have to sell the second Ferraris and the condo's in Malibu? How can you be so callous? My god - they might even have to send their children to, gulp, public school. That's horrible.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Shog9 wrote:
Well, i agree that it sucks to lose one's job. But... i have a really hard time working sympathy (for anyone besides myself) and thoughts of DoubleClick into the same thought. The company existed to advertise other people's products on other people's sites. That's what it's been known for, and if it produced anything of value on the side, well, this'll be the first i've heard of it.
You heartless swine. Don't you know that they'll have to sell the second Ferraris and the condo's in Malibu? How can you be so callous? My god - they might even have to send their children to, gulp, public school. That's horrible.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
So you're saying there'll be good used Ferraris available soon? Ehhhxcellent.
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this is a really odd statement. From the Article: Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has suggested that overseas operations, employing a further 300 people, will also be affected at a later date. so google is hiring 300 people or has hired 300 people overseas and removed 300 from united states? or is this a journalist inference on a quote that isn't being quoted? this is a really dodgy part of that article
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this is a really odd statement. From the Article: Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has suggested that overseas operations, employing a further 300 people, will also be affected at a later date. so google is hiring 300 people or has hired 300 people overseas and removed 300 from united states? or is this a journalist inference on a quote that isn't being quoted? this is a really dodgy part of that article
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7290322.stm[^] Another story about google citing out of the united states goals :( " The wacky office is both a showcase for Google's unconventional approach to business and a symbol to prove that Google is no longer a US-centric firm. "
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this is a really odd statement. From the Article: Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has suggested that overseas operations, employing a further 300 people, will also be affected at a later date. so google is hiring 300 people or has hired 300 people overseas and removed 300 from united states? or is this a journalist inference on a quote that isn't being quoted? this is a really dodgy part of that article
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I read it as: Overseas operations - which employ 300 people - will experience layoffs in the future.
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen
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I read it as: Overseas operations - which employ 300 people - will experience layoffs in the future.
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen
Michael Dunn wrote:
will experience layoffs in the future.
lies. lies! soon it will be too late to stop the G machine
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Michael Dunn wrote:
will experience layoffs in the future.
lies. lies! soon it will be too late to stop the G machine
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jgasm wrote:
soon it will be too late to stop the G machine
Time will do 'em in eventually. A real brute, time is...
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Shog9 wrote:
A real brute, time is...
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Shog9 wrote:
A real brute, time is...
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
And the author is? (if it's you, very cool!)
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jgasm wrote:
soon it will be too late to stop the G machine
Time will do 'em in eventually. A real brute, time is...
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
The sun will devour us all in 5 billion years anyway... :)
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen
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And the author is? (if it's you, very cool!)
Software Zen:
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Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
And the author is?
:laugh: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit my poetry is no where near as good, though easily found if you know what to look for. :)
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
And the author is?
:laugh: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit my poetry is no where near as good, though easily found if you know what to look for. :)
:doh: All right dammit, stop laughing already. I last read The Hobbit in 1982, 26 freaking years ago. Half you damn punks weren't even an itch in your daddy's pants then. Stomps off, grumbling under his breath...
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:doh: All right dammit, stop laughing already. I last read The Hobbit in 1982, 26 freaking years ago. Half you damn punks weren't even an itch in your daddy's pants then. Stomps off, grumbling under his breath...
Software Zen:
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Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
All right dammit, stop laughing already.
actually, I was laughing that you even thought it might be mine. I do write poetry[^] but i am not THAT good of a writer. Oh there are some hidden and double meanings in a few of my poems and I have managed a little of constrained writing, but I am not a writer. :) I read the hobbit last about the same time, around '81 or '82. I am only a little younger than you if I recall, at least compared to some here. I was born in '65, graduated in '83 and entered the programming force in '86.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
All right dammit, stop laughing already.
actually, I was laughing that you even thought it might be mine. I do write poetry[^] but i am not THAT good of a writer. Oh there are some hidden and double meanings in a few of my poems and I have managed a little of constrained writing, but I am not a writer. :) I read the hobbit last about the same time, around '81 or '82. I am only a little younger than you if I recall, at least compared to some here. I was born in '65, graduated in '83 and entered the programming force in '86.
You young whippersnapper! I have a younger sister older than you!
Caffeine - it's what's for breakfast! (and lunch, and dinner, and...)
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The sun will devour us all in 5 billion years anyway... :)
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen
That leaves me worrying. :)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
All right dammit, stop laughing already.
actually, I was laughing that you even thought it might be mine. I do write poetry[^] but i am not THAT good of a writer. Oh there are some hidden and double meanings in a few of my poems and I have managed a little of constrained writing, but I am not a writer. :) I read the hobbit last about the same time, around '81 or '82. I am only a little younger than you if I recall, at least compared to some here. I was born in '65, graduated in '83 and entered the programming force in '86.
You're the same age as my little brother (who's 2" taller and 40 lbs heavier, but that's beside the point :-D). I was born in '61, graduated from college in '84, and started programming professionally in '80. I worked my way through college as a programmer / technical writer / slave.
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You'd be hard pressed to find any merger that didn't result in layoffs. We're programmers - surely we understand the concept of refactoring by combining repeated functionality into a single unit.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I feel sorry for the DoubleClick staff who have been laid off.
Well, i agree that it sucks to lose one's job. But... i have a really hard time working sympathy (for anyone besides myself) and thoughts of DoubleClick into the same thought. The company existed to advertise other people's products on other people's sites. That's what it's been known for, and if it produced anything of value on the side, well, this'll be the first i've heard of it.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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The sun will devour us all in 5 billion years anyway... :)
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen
Baring a truely massive effort the sun'll cook us in the next 500m-1bn years. It's getting hotter as it ages (4.5bn years ago it was only 70% its current luminosity), and will reach the point where even 0% CO2 will be too much greenhouse gas and begin evaporating the ocean as stage one in making Venus 2.0.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon
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You're the same age as my little brother (who's 2" taller and 40 lbs heavier, but that's beside the point :-D). I was born in '61, graduated from college in '84, and started programming professionally in '80. I worked my way through college as a programmer / technical writer / slave.
Software Zen:
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Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
I worked my way through college as a programmer / technical writer / slave.
ya got me beat! I gardened my way through votech after loosing my scholarships and dropping out of college. oh and I am the shrimp of the family at a hair under 6foot and probably heavier than your little brother, 275lbs and holding (I'd rather be loosing), but I am down from 478!