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I think one of the challenges with growing up is that you have to work increasingly hard at preserving that which made you special. As others have argued, "Don
by martythemaniak 15y ago
I think one of the challenges with growing up is that you have to work increasingly hard at preserving that which made you special.
As others have argued, "Don't be Evil" is Google trying to inoculate itself against growing up too much and always having a nagging reminder to strive to be the company they were in their youth. Perhaps the valley was never a gentleman's game, but it was (and still is) much more so than other industries.
- Volpe 15y agoReally? I remember reading about all the crap between Apple/Microsoft/Xerox (in the late 80s/90s) none of it could be described as even close a 'gentlemen's game". Are we that different to any other industry?
- polyfractal 15y agoOr all the recent nonsense about non-compete hiring practices between top tech firms.
- RegEx 15y agoI wasn't aware of this issue. Do you have a link to a recent article/HN discussion concerning it?
- polyfractal 15y agoSure: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3516314 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3516314