Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
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Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#2At around 14:10 in the speech - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8&feature=playe...
Also I'm not sure if he quit Google, or if he just quit the project he was working on.
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#3More importantly he has revealed that Google will be adding cat picture features to Google Plus. Facebook is in trouble.
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#4At around 14:10 in the speech - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8&feature=playe... Also I'm not sure if he quit Google, or if he just quit the project he was working on.
Well I don't think that Google has anything similar to human genome project, so I think he quit Google. But yes, it is a but unclear.
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#5At around 14:10 in the speech - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8&feature=playe... Also I'm not sure if he quit Google, or if he just quit the project he was working on.
He said he's "quitting that job", which doesn't sound ambiguous to me. It's not the way I'd let someone know I was getting off a project.
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#6Please change the title to:
Stevey gives up the being part of the chase for the superfluous (in money), and calls for us to do something about the necessary
No one needs a million dollars. No one. Why are we chasing it and dying of heart disease -- heart disease we can cure if we start chasing that instead?
Our priorities are absolutely messed up and it's time we start realigning them. This isn't a speech; this isn't a funny resignation. This is a clarion call to join in. We can do so much better. We can achieve something valuable, if we start to realize where true value lies.
Steve's in. I'm in. Who else around here is in?
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#7I'm not sure I agree with his premise that, in order to change the world you must work on a problem with "big data." I can't see how the energy crisis is fundamentally data-driven, for example, and it's hard to say that you couldn't change the world by working on that.
Regardless, best of luck to him wherever he winds up (within Google or elsewhere)! And I hope he keeps writing!
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#8Wow, he really did. How this isn't on the front page, I don't know. It should be!
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#9Watch the whole talk. It's fantastic. And as a 40 year old, I completely concur.
But what to do about it? Hmmmm.....time to go shopping for books, or search for online courses.
Re: Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
#10Please change the title to: Stevey gives up the being part of the chase for the superfluous (in money), and calls for us to do something about the necessary No one needs a million dollars. No one. Why are we chasing it and dying of heart disease -- heart disease we can cure if we start chasing that instead? Our priorities are absolutely messed up and it's time we start realigning them. This isn't a speech; this isn't…
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