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my thoughts exactly. I feel like it's a status symbol for a comapany. They are most likely busy giving talks and lectures to do any actual work. Maybe their va
by setheron 14y ago
my thoughts exactly.
I feel like it's a status symbol for a comapany. They are most likely busy giving talks and lectures to do any actual work.
Maybe their value is in the odd meeting where they can voice some input.
I've never had the pleasure of being in the room with giants such as these so I wouldn't know sadly.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoThere is a joke in Silicon Valley that one of the levels of success is "Your new company issues a press release that you've been hired." It goes something like: You know you are successful in Silicon Valley when: followed by silly things like "You are Time's Man of the Year" or "On Wired's most Influential list" that sort of thing.
- kyllo 14y agoI guess that's why it's called "Silicon Valley" rather than "Sense of Humor Valley."
- mememememememe 14y agoWhat does he do at Google exactly? I thought he was more like giving talk, optimizing Python and consulting Python engineers.
- jaimebuelta 14y agoI sincerely hope that he will write some code. Keeping him busy just lecturing and giving talks will be like hiring Michael Jordan only to play baseball...