On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:58 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Patrick Shirkey > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, November 12, 2010 1:55 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > >> > >> I like Google because they annoy Gordon, and that means more > >> entertainment for us. > > > > All this anger. I suspect they rejected him at some point. > > I would be very surprised to learn he had ever applied there.
Actually, I turned them down - but I'm not really allowed to talk about it ;-) > I think actually his is the sort of complaint Google should be making > a note of -- it's clearly made up of a number of small irritations > that just happen to cross most of the spectrum of things he might use > their services for. > > It's not that everyone else necessarily agrees with him, but that one > person's irritations might be things that grow to be everyone's > irritations over time, and might become things that a competitor can > take advantage of -- just as Google originally took advantage of the > overdeveloped search interfaces everyone else used to provide. ... and which they have overdeveloped their way right back round to. > > Me, I've been rejected three times by Google. I'm getting used to it now. > > It is perhaps an unbalanced world in which anyone feels they have to > apply more than once to the same employer. On the odd occasion I have been turned down by an employer, I've tended to think "Oh well, their loss" and move on. No point making yourself look foolish, hammering at the same door. I would only go back to software development professionally if I was absolutely desparate, and First Bus weren't hiring drivers. Gordon MM0YEQ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
