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The author complains that she was dissatisfied with her offer six years prior but took the job anyway. Then it turns into a rant about how she was robbed of her entitlements.

"But what happens when the economy improves? Those wounds will never heal. Anyone with half a brain will say "hey, these guys are evil!" and will bail for greener pastures."

Because they don't have bagels in the microkitchen Google is evil?

As someone who works at Google, I can assure you that the microkitchens are overflowing with drinks, snacks, fruits, coffees, and candies, The cafeterias are plentiful(24 in mountain view alone) and the food is incredibly delicious, even for a foodie like myself.

Plus, the pay is very competitive. The author must not have stuck around for this:

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-11-09/tech/30024423...

It's unfortunate that her experience didn't end well, but this article comes across as hyperbolic and catty.

Prior to the release of the first Android phone, Jobs acted almost as a mentor to Larry/Sergey. In fact, the two companies were so closely aligned that there was an antitrust investigation:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship...

I wonder if the author feels similarly about -9

The millions of people that have joined Google+ and the throngs of people that have buzzed about it would beg to differ with the author who is obviously is trolling.

Also, he conveniently omitted from the article the fact that he's a visiting researcher at Microsoft. Possible conflict of interests?

The fact that it's a smartphone, or that it's running Windows 7, or that it was developed in Silverlight doesn't seem to have anything to do with the fact that we're looking at a glorified microscope.

Surely there's a cheaper way to get a microscopic image of a blood sample in Africa than flooding villages with Windows smartphones.

It is an extension of human memory at the sacrifice of attention span.

It would make a lot more sense from a revenue standpoint than when they purchased YouTube. Viacom has beef with Google TV so I wonder what would happen to all the Viacom offerings on Hulu if that were to happen.

http://www.gtvhub.com/2010/11/21/comedy-central-mtv-nickelod...

That looks nice, but in my experience it's not likely that you'll have access to a GUI when you're in need of running traceroutes.

I've recently switched to mtr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_%28software%29

Not named after a Native American people. Won't scale as well.