No, not a throwaway comment: the entire last paragraph summarizes his rant against MS and Google spending money on salaries and perks "because these companies a

No, not a throwaway comment: the entire last paragraph summarizes his rant against MS and Google spending money on salaries and perks "because these companies are like cancers, driven to grow at all cost, even though they can't think of a single useful thing to build for us, but they need another 3000-4000 comp sci grads next week." Those companies are profitable cancers and Splotsky is annoyed because he can't complete.