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This no doubt casts a shadow on his career and life. I think you're overestimating the impact this has. People generally don't remember a name in an article th
by Confusion 17y ago
This no doubt casts a shadow on his career and life.
I think you're overestimating the impact this has. People generally don't remember a name in an article they read at some website some time ago. Secondly, the number of people actually reading this is quite small. For instance, suppose someone lost a Nokia prototype in the same way and the engineer later applied to Apple. How large is the chance that the responsible guy at Apple HR would have heard the story and remembered the name?
- boredguy8 17y agoWhere have you applied lately, that doesn't Google your name?
- stretchwithme 17y agoAnd if you do it enough times, you realize everybody's got something to be unproud of. "Forgot my cellphone" has got be way down on the list of engineering failures.
- protomyth 17y agoNot for a high tech company on the cutting edge who would test their machines in public. If he worked for someone else and was now applying at Apple, would he be hired?
- reitzensteinm 17y agoSorry, but you're completely wrong about this. Anyone searching his name for the next 50 years will find this amongst the top 10 unless he ends up with the web presence of someone like Leo Laporte or Joel Spolsky (or someone with the same name does). The question is not whether hiring managers will find out about this - they will - it's whether they'll care.
- confuzatron 17y agoAll the chap did was accidentally leave his phone in a bar. Presumably he had it out for dog-fooding style testing. Gray Whoever (I've forgotten already) is hardly a name that will live in infamy. Unless the next time we see him is in a grainy beheading video featuring Steve Jobs wielding a large machete. All this 'OMG STOLEN' drama is totally over the top - I think some people are just looking for an angle at which to get outraged at a newsworthy product leak.
- CWuestefeld 17y agoAll this 'OMG STOLEN' drama is totally over the top +1 for that. I haven't even looked at the Gizmodo page in question. That's not for any moral outrage, but because I just don't care. A new Apple product is not going to change my life by one iota. Hearing about an Apple product under development makes even less difference to me. I have to say: Apple's marketing -- and this is part of it, make no mistake, even if it was precipitated by accident -- are the masters. That they can get the press into such a tizzy, and have such a legion of fanboys, for nothing but a handful of tech products, is what's truly remarkable -- and makes me kind of sad.
- njharman 17y ago> 'OMG STOLEN' drama is over the top Unless it is happening to you. Empathy, geeks are known to lack it, you should at least learn to fake it.
- confuzatron 17y agoOkay, but empathy towards a /corporation/ for something secret being leaked? Not so much. Maybe you're talking about Gary Wotsit being outed - I wasn't referring to that.
- protomyth 17y agoIf an HR department can google his name, then it will close career paths to him.