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This has been Oracle's (i.e. Larry Ellison's) sales and marketing M.O. since forever. Read up on why Raymond Lane left the company. And sad part is it works.

The article is not about whether programmers are doing well for themselves. It's about what happens to the rest of society when only one section (tech\finance) do well for themselv…

I fully agree with this piece. I am sick of the Larry Ellison type role model of leadership that is encouraged and celebrated. Mindless ambition is not a bad thing if you want to c…

My favorite kind of cranky old geezer. Inspired.

I'd like to believe there is a secret rag tag bunch of 60-70 year old, retired Engineers out there working on some cool tech. If we have 60-70 year old's running for president, mov…

Interesting. Could explain why the different wiring produces the same computation.

I am just curious to see what, this generation of 20-40 year old's who get lucky, end up doing with their cash. They do seem a bit more worldly wise than the last gen (who I blame …

Agree and also Investors have a bias towards the student crowd as they are much easier to impress and deal with, than an experienced Academic or Engineer.

I agree with you. Let's just give thanks that Larry Page doesn't run Wikipedia. At this point Google is way past the point of no return. They are more bothered about empire defense…

In so many ways. You can find the pattern everywhere once you start looking. On a recent trip I saw the after effects of a Nokia factory closing. Now one would think given the boom…

Since the crowd around here can't exist without an increase in poverty, the real question is how many poor people do we need to produce one Zuckerberg. If we want more Zuckerbergs …

"Computers" were actually clerks in the census office that spent their days manually adding up and multiplying things. They got replaced by IBM's tabulators well before the 30's. B…

Also well worth reading about T.J Watson. IBM was one of the few American companies that had no layoffs during the depression in the 30's. Inventories built up. No sales. And he wa…

Amen. It's an unfortunate effect of social media and the information overload. People get flooded with info. They spot hypocrisy. They think they are doing gods works by pointing i…

Well...the conservative nature is mostly cause they haven't discovered the internet yet. Zuckerberg is working on it with drones over the Serengeti and such.

DARPA's SyNAPSE and then the self powered brain of an ant. That's computing. Everything else could find place on what's next in consumerist garbage.

True. Which is why I approve the activist shareholder plans at Microsoft and Google to move their CEO's and global HQ's to India.

Well said.

Sounds like the American economy.

If you know the experimental drug\treatment you want to try check overseas. Don't wait for local (I'm assuming) docs to give you the info. Contact centers with a known rep. Good lu…

:) +1 for carrot breaks

This has been like watching one form of misinformation battling another form of misinformation. One set of misguided people battling another set of misguided people. NetNeutrality …

I have a lot of respect for Wael Ghonim for standing up and saying he had no idea what he unleashed via social networks. I'd like to see Facebook and Twitter do the same. Take resp…

President...well...they don't really do much these days other than provide Reality TV style entertainment. The office should be just phased out imho or used like the Queen for tour…