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I never would've guessed that the software industry would produce such engrossing real-time dramas. Take Kim Dotcom, John McAfee, throw in Elon Musk for good me
by evoxed 14y ago
I never would've guessed that the software industry would produce such engrossing real-time dramas. Take Kim Dotcom, John McAfee, throw in Elon Musk for good measure (maybe Branson too) and you're well into comic book territory.
- evan_ 14y agoDon't forget Hans Reiser! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
- mandlar 14y agoThat's one killer file system.
- tsieling 14y agoWhen you consider that tech titans are making tools that reshape the way entire societies interact and even how people use information and think about things, we've been in comic book territory for years.
- citricsquid 14y agowhat's the drama around Musk and Branson?
- gvb 14y agoMusk's divorce from his first wife, Justine, was a major drama (his divorce from his second wife was quieter). He also teetered on the brink of insolvency (cash flow) at least in part due to the contentious first divorce. Ref: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-07-08/tech/30035685_1_divorce-personal-life-assets http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-07-08/tech/30035685... http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/sorkin-elon-musk-of-paypal-and-tesla-fame-is-broke/ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/sorkin-elon-musk-of-p...
- narrator 14y agoDon't forget Julian Assange, Gary Mckinnon, and Satoshi Nakamoto.
- himlion 14y agoI wonder if Satoshi Nakamoto even is a single person.
- otterley 14y agoOh, and Patrick Naughton, one of the early Java guys and EVP at Infoseek: http://www.zdnet.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-patrick-naughton/106320 http://www.zdnet.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-patrick-naugh...
- sbochins 14y agoSince I am developing in Java full time at my current gig, I have come to the realization that you would need to have the mind of a pedophile to write this awful language.
- stfu 14y agoOr is it just the case, that those willing to infuse brake through thinking into society are more frequantly not fitting the conventional definitions of sanity?
- jimbokun 14y agoWe are living in a Neal Stephenson novel.
- slashedzero 14y agoVardan Kushnir also had quite the adventurous life and death!