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Submission + - What Working at Google Microsoft and Yahoo is Like

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Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:22PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Tastyresearch shares stories about interning and working at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He barbecues with Bill Gates at his house, dines at the Google cafeterias, gets stood up by Yahoo, and details his interviews. He notes that many Microsoft interns end up at other places he works (reading between the lines). A chart compares Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo from the perspective of monitor sizes and perks. Prospective applicants are advised to learn about sorting and linked lists."

Submission + - Iraq War Planned Using PowerPoint Slides

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Phobos

on Friday February 16, 2007 @08:17PM

Phobos writes: "The BBC is covering the NSA's (no, not that one, the other one) uncovering of a pre war powerpoint presentation.

These documents show how unrealistic the Iraq invasion was from the beginning. By this time, only 5,000 troops were to be in Iraq, with the rest having been redeployed. Retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich said that PowerPoint war planning was the ultimate insult:

"Here may be the clearest manifestation of OSD's [Office of Secretary of Defense] contempt for the accumulated wisdom of the military profession and of the assumption among forward thinkers that technology — above all information technology — has rendered obsolete the conventions traditionally governing the preparation and conduct of war. To imagine that PowerPoint slides can substitute for such means is really the height of recklessness.""

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