Realistically, I don't think Snowden needs a job. Not for income at any rate. There's no shortage of very wealthy people willing to support him for opposing the U.S. government.
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#12Realistically, I don't think Snowden needs a job. Not for income at any rate. There's no shortage of very wealthy people willing to support him for opposing the U.S. government.
Yeah, but there's nothing worse than boredom for a computer guy. And besides, protecting the user privacy is probably something he cares about.
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#13Aside: the CNN mobile site made it almost impossible to get the address bar to show in Safari or Chrome on iPhone. I've never seen this antipattern on a mobile site before.
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#14If I were him, a full-time job at a reputable company would be the last thing I'd want. Then everyone knows where you are, when you're there, etc. A huge number of people would love to see him disappear (permanently)... I'd be laying low, maybe writing a book about the whole thing and releasing it via a third party, if it was a matter of making income while staying off-grid.
You don't need to be working in a specific place if you run computer-related activities. Also TOR.
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#15Is Putin Russia's Obama, as well?
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#16How does a job offer help him, or anyone else, for that matter? I'm not sure job hunting is his first priority right now. There must be hundreds of businesses out there who would offer him a job for novelty's sake.
I think computer guys hate boredom ;)
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#17It's the same douchebag that was making paper airplanes out of real money, throwing them from his office window and then going all ecstatic over people on the ground fighting each other for these planes.
Yeah, it's once in a lifetime opportunity for Snowden. Woo. Hoo.
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#18Don't believe everything you read, first, that guy ('Russian zuckerberg') is a douche known for his freaky escapades like throwing money out of the office's window and watching people fight for them, second.
What is he proud about? That Snowden became a pawn in Putin's game while our own Russian protesters get prosecuted in fake cases? He's just one dumb motherfucker who got rich by stealing the facebook idea.
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#19> On the same day, Pavel Durov, CEO of the social network VKontakte, offered Snowden a job as a security software developer. In his career, hasn't Snowden been more of a sys admin type?[1]. Putting all the hoopla/outrage over his leaks aside, from a career perspective, would Snowden be qualified for a developer role? I guess my question is whether Durov's motivation is to get PR points or to get a suitable engineer f…
That's what I'm saying, it's no more than just stupid PR aimed at laymen.
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#20It's the same douchebag that was making paper airplanes out of real money, throwing them from his office window and then going all ecstatic over people on the ground fighting each other for these planes. Yeah, it's once in a lifetime opportunity for Snowden. Woo. Hoo.
I worked with Durov in 2007 and 2008 (making everything for the VK video service; I moved to Paris after getting bored managing 200+ servers in 3 datacenters). He is a brilliant guy, however he's also eccentric. And his brother's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov) sysadmin/system programmers team is one of the best in the world as far as I can say.
Unlike Facebook, VK guys are still capable to work in a very small team without hundreds of mediocre outsourced developers.