Author: Zack Urlocker Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595261825 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 234
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Valley of the Geeks skewers Silicon Valley with high-tech hijinks that keep you laughing out loud. This new collection of essays includes the best original humor from the award-winning web site. Urlocker's unique blend of wit and wisdom cover everything from Larry Ellison's ego to Bill Gates' secret plan to take over the government. "Valley of the Geeks is very funny. It's supposed to be funny, right?"-Bruce Eckel, "Thinking in Java" "Let Valley of The Geeks treat you to banner ads we'd like to see."-USA Today · Cellular Hell · Entrepreneurosis · Akamai Sues Self · Towards Simplexity · Recession Cancelled · Lonely at the Middle · Dot Com Survivor.com · Dear Miss Management · Oracle Teams With Mafia · A New Spin on Marketing · Fast Track to the Ground Floor · Microsoft Apologizes for Nukes · What Not To Say To A Recruiter · More Banner Ads We'd Like to See · RTFM: The New High Tech Dictionary 2.0 · Telecom Depressed - Still Can't Get Out Of Bed
Author: Ashlee Vance Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0762751916 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 265
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Silicon Valley veterans and newbies alike will want to explore this book that delves into the rich history behind the region that birthed the world's most important industry. Technology journalist Ashlee Vance has captured almost every aspect of the area stretching between San Francisco and San Jose, California, starting with the eager radio and electronics enthusiasts of the early 1900s and ending with the computing powerhouses of today such as Google and Apple. Along the way, the book profiles the people and places that have elevated Silicon Valley to an almost mythic pedestal. This book delivers Silicon Valley, taking us from success story to failed startup and back again as we drive the roads from San Francisco to Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San Jose. It's full of profiles of the larger-than-life characters that pioneered the processor, computer, and Internet revolutions. The book's vibrant design includes "Silicon Valley Soundbytes" packed with insider information and trivia, and "Click Here" sidebars, which suggest places to eat, drink, and shop. Place by place, readers get the inside scoop on all the addresses that count, which include Microsoft research centers; the headquarters of Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle; research powerhouses such as Stanford University, NASA Ames, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the Computer History Museum and The Tech Museum; the Shoreline Amphitheater; the Churchill Club; and many more.
Author: Alexandra Wolfe Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476778949 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 272
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"A Wall Street Journal columnist for "Weekend Confidential" explores the hubris and ambition of Silicon Valley innovators who are changing the world, tracing the stories of three upstarts who left promising college educations in favor of developing billion-dollar ideas"--NoveList.
Author: Dan Crowley Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402251041 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 354
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Following up his hit 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages, Dan Crowley again takes on the Web's weirdest and wildest in 505 Weirdest Online Stores. This is the ultimate guide to the Internet's strangest stores, where you can spend your time and money in pursuit of dehydrated water, duct tape fashion and a corporate hairball. For all those who love eBay but are tired of products that have actual uses, check out these sites: The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation (www.goat-trauma.org) Political Talking Action Figures (www.prankplace.com/politics.htm) Lunar Land Owner (www.lunarlandowner.com) Air Sickness Bags (www.airsicknessbags.com) Michael Jackson Artwork (www.helenakadlcikova.com/michael_jackson.htm)
Author: France Winddance Twine Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479835153 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 296
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industry Why is being a computer “geek” still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the tech world. Much has been written about the industry’s failure to adequately address gender and racial inequalities, yet rarely have we gotten an intimate look inside these companies. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that “lifts the Silicon veil” to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. This work draws on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who are currently employed at tech firms such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, and at various start-ups in the San Francisco Bay area. Geek Girls captures what it is like to work as a technically skilled woman in Silicon Valley. With a sharp eye for detail and compelling testimonials from industry insiders, Twine shows how the technology industry remains rigged against women, and especially Black, Latinx, and Native American women from working class backgrounds. From recruitment and hiring practices that give priority to those with family, friends, and classmates employed in the industry, to social and educational segregation, to academic prestige hierarchies, Twine reveals how women are blocked from entering this industry. Women who do not belong to the dominant ethnic groups in the industry are denied employment opportunities, and even actively pushed out, despite their technical skills and qualifications. While the technology firms strongly embrace the rhetoric of diversity and oppose discrimination in the workplace, Twine argues that closed social networks and routine hiring practices described by employees reinforce the status quo and reproduce inequality. The myth of meritocracy and gender stereotypes operate in tandem to produce a culture where the use of race-, color-, and power-evasive language makes it difficult for individuals to name the micro-aggressions and forms of discrimination that they experience. Twine offers concrete insights into how the technology industry can address ongoing racial and gender disparities, create more transparency and empower women from underrepresented groups, who continued to be denied opportunities.
Author: Michael Lopp Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc." ISBN: 1098116631 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 235
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At some point in your career, you'll realize there's more to being a software engineer than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Or join a startup? In this insightful and entertaining book, Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Slack, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, and Symantec to help you make better, more mindful career decisions. With more than 40 stand-alone stories, Lopp walks through a complete job lifecycle, starting with the interview and ending with the realization that it might be time to move on. You'll learn how to handle baffling circumstances in your job, understand what you want from your career, and discover how to thrive in your workplace. Learn how to navigate areas of your job that don't involve writing code Identify how the aspects you enjoy will affect your next career steps Build and maintain key relationships and interactions within your community Make choices that will help you have a "deliberate career" Recognize what's important to your manager and work on things that matter
Author: Adam Fisher Publisher: Hachette+ORM ISBN: 1455559016 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 387
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"This is the most important book on Silicon Valley I've read in two decades. It will take us all back to our roots in the counterculture, and will remind us of the true nature of the innovation process, before we tried to tame it with slogans and buzzwords." -- Po Bronson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nudist on the Late Shift and Nurtureshock A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley -- from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way. Rarely has one economy asserted itself as swiftly--and as aggressively--as the entity we now know as Silicon Valley. Built with a seemingly permanent culture of reinvention, Silicon Valley does not fight change; it embraces it, and now powers the American economy and global innovation. So how did this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not by planning. It was, like many an empire before it, part luck, part timing, and part ambition. And part pure, unbridled genius... Drawing on over two hundred in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes readers from the dawn of the personal computer and the internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented. It interweaves accounts of invention and betrayal, overnight success and underground exploits, to tell the story of Silicon Valley like it has never been told before. Read it to discover the stories that Valley insiders tell each other: the tall tales that are all, improbably, true.
Author: Kiana Tower Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595208487 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 118
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Take an intimate peek into the Silicon Valley social scene. San Francisco Bay Area residents share true stories about dating, relationships and sex in the tech capital of the world.Here’s a small sample:“There are so many intelligent, creative ‘engineer’ types who apply the same type of inventiveness to sex. There are amazing men sitting behind computers thinking about sex all day—hot and ready to go!” Yasmine, 32“Each phone call had me peeling off my clothes little by little. I would be in my underwear by the time the phone call ended and I wouldn’t sleep all night.” Faith, 33“We just couldn’t wait any longer and ran into some Chinese dive bar in the Tenderloin. We went downstairs and screwed our brains out ‘til the bar owner came and almost knocked the door down.” Lucky, 32“My friend suggested I go out and have a fling, so I thought I’d give it a shot. But where would I find someone to fling me?” Nicole, 30“My boss’s daughter was always walking around in tight skirts and low cut blouses. We ended up going down on each other, leaning right up against the copy equipment!” Stephanie, 24
Author: Publisher: Bluedale Group Of Companies ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 132
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The fastest guide to Klang Valley. A guide to the essentials of Klang Valley that helps you hit the ground running on your trip. A practical e-book of things to do and see in Klang Valley.
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