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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by samplatt on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:22PM (#28296677)
Seriously? Wow. Talk about tone-deaf.
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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by phendrenad2 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:00AM (#28298201)
How so? Many engineers have given up on their ideals when a large enough paycheck is waved in front of them.
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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by ineedasername on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:25PM (#28296701)
What an amazing clash of personalities that would have been.
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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by dfee on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:40PM (#28296801)
Guido had 6.5 years at Dropbox. That always surprised me.
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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by alisonkisk on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:47PM (#28297236)
Why? That paid him to work on Python.
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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by sumedh on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:19AM (#28300702)
What did Dropbox get in return?
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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by icegreentea2 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:30AM (#28300798)
Here's Dropbox's goodbye post:

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido

To summarize:

* Having THE language creator (dropbox was majority Python) around is super useful, especially from a soft-technical standpoint. Imagine the confidence boost a junior gets from that.

* Worked on mypy

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