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Re:Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to th... by martythemaniak on Monday February 13, 2012 @08:08PM (#3588137)
I think one of the challenges with growing up is that you have to work increasingly hard at preserving that which made you special.

As others have argued, "Don't be Evil" is Google trying to inoculate itself against growing up too much and always having a nagging reminder to strive to be the company they were in their youth. Perhaps the valley was never a gentleman's game, but it was (and still is) much more so than other industries.

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Re:Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to th... by Volpe on Monday February 13, 2012 @10:30PM (#3588496)
Really? I remember reading about all the crap between Apple/Microsoft/Xerox (in the late 80s/90s) none of it could be described as even close a 'gentlemen's game".

Are we that different to any other industry?

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Re:Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to th... by polyfractal on Monday February 13, 2012 @10:35PM (#3588506)
Or all the recent nonsense about non-compete hiring practices between top tech firms.
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Re:Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to th... by RegEx on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @12:06AM (#3588714)
I wasn't aware of this issue. Do you have a link to a recent article/HN discussion concerning it?
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Re:Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to th... by polyfractal on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @12:17AM (#3588749)
Sure:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3516314

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