I felt the article was lacking a reference to the person who made reverse osmosis into a real solution for desalination, Prof. Sidney Loeb. A brilliant yet unassuming man.
10 years ago the initials DHH would be instantly recognizable to any HNer. I remember joining when the ROR-Django wars were raging. Times have changed.
Well, in fairness, he'd be instantly recognizable to the Ruby community and that hasn't changed. Although hardly obscure, he wasn't nearly as well-known outside of that crowd, and even ten years ago, HN represented a much wider swath of people than that.
Okay, a particular person got an offer that amortized out comes to a billion over four years. How is this radically different from all the other egregious buyouts (such as whatsapp with 55 employees bought for 19 billion, when the dollar was worth a lot more)?
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