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About 2007/2008 by my recollection.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181821 The subject of TC posts on HN has been a contentious issue for as long as HN has existed. I think there is still a pretty large contingent that thinks TechCrunch should have been banned just the same way Valleywag was.
Since when did TechCrunch become a tabloid?
Usually I go straight to HN comments to read the first few ones to determine if a posted article is worth reading. You guys/gals rock because you help me avoid tabloid stuff and save precious minutes of my life.
There aren't too many, or any, other places where you get a peer level of trust from an otherwise anonymous community.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181821 The subject of TC posts on HN has been a contentious issue for as long as HN has existed. I think there is still a pretty large contingent that thinks TechCrunch should have been banned just the same way Valleywag was.
Valleywag is banned?
This isn't an April Fools post is it? I mean seriously, if you're willing to pay $50M or $100M to keep a single employee from walking, what happens if they die on their commute into work? What sort of risk are you carrying anyway? And I didn't think I could be amazed by 'Google scale' any more, sure proves I was wrong on that.
I'm wondering if they failed to check the date on the email of their tip-off. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I might be mistaken but I believe Sundar Pichai isn't an american national, in which case he'll be working on a visa. And in the US work visas require a public declaration of salary (the published data has the names stripped but frankly at a $50m salary I imagine he'd be easy to spot). So…
This isn't an April Fools post is it? I mean seriously, if you're willing to pay $50M or $100M to keep a single employee from walking, what happens if they die on their commute into work? What sort of risk are you carrying anyway? And I didn't think I could be amazed by 'Google scale' any more, sure proves I was wrong on that.
"If you're a Google employee and you aren't out interviewing at Facebook, Twitter or Zynga you are a moron" This is why this has to be false. The precedent would be destructive. How many employees will go out looking for a job to use as leverage, not get a google counter offer, and just leave?
"If you're a Google employee and you aren't out interviewing at Facebook, Twitter or Zynga you are a moron" This is why this has to be false. The precedent would be destructive. How many employees will go out looking for a job to use as leverage, not get a google counter offer, and just leave?
Or it could be clever. Google is at a stage in their corporate life where they need people who aren't primarily chasing money. Maybe this is a plan to get those people to leave.
$3.5 million for a key employee I can deal with, but $100 million? It feels like absolute lunacy, if true.