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"Google doesn't deny or retract these statements." What a bogus thing to say. A company sued by someone they fired can't defend themselves in the press. They
by pg 15y ago
"Google doesn't deny or retract these statements."
What a bogus thing to say. A company sued by someone they fired can't defend themselves in the press. They just have to sit and take it when someone who knows so little about the case that they didn't even hear about it till a NYT article 8 years later uses it as an excuse to write a linkbait post like this.
Maybe Reid was too set in his ways. It does happen. Or not. The point is, we just don't know. No thoughtful person could even form an opinion based on the evidence presented in that NYT article, let alone write an inflammatory blog post about it.
This post tells absolutely zero new, except about Dave Winer. It's embarrassing to see it getting so many upvotes.
- rdl 15y agoThe main point of the NY Times article dude was provoked by was actually "silicon valley no longer makes silicon (hardware)", not that there's age discrimination. The correlation with age is just because hardware used to be the big thing, and thus people who were working here back then did hardware. Younger people who are unwilling to move away from hardware are often going to be unemployed in Silicon Valley; older designers and software engineers won't be.
- davewiner 15y agoThe plaintiff in this case was not a hardware engineer. He was an award-winning software developer.