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sggrf
08/31/09

In reply to The Scariest Boss in Redmond
He FAILED at Yahoo and will FAIL again at Microsoft. No chance they can win.
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Paul.B.Dodd
08/31/09

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He already lost to Google once overseeing Yahoo and it wasn't even close. He's losing right now because Bing is awful and its constantly changing background is irritating. Work smarter, not harder. I hate working for these hardass bosses who schedule meetings on Fridays and Mondays and expect 16 hour days. Even if Bing were useful in something, which isn't the case, I would avoid using it out of spite just because of this guy.
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shostakobitch
08/31/09

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his vanity plate is a random series of letters and numbers. he masturbates to rfid tags and bar codes. fuck you microsoft and fuck you no-fun worker stereotype. turn down the mahler, drink a couple beers and take a nap.
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ambitious
08/31/09

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He eats glass sandwiches for lunch and sandwich glasses for dinner.

He sleeps with his eyes open and fists gripping stun-guns.

He eats lemons whole like apples. Rind on.

And his spectacles are made of crystalized grandpa tears.

He is: Ferocious Qi.

Seriously, he sounds like most hard-working people I know. Save those late night meetings.
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snugbug
08/31/09

@ambitious: I would really hate to be his wife or his kids, but I can honestly relate to his habit of snagging quiet time at the office in the before- and after-hours. It's incredible how productive you can be when your cubicle neighbors aren't neighing like jackasses while you're on deadline. I used to routinely plug in my Zune* to block out the office chatter during regular hours.

*Yes, that's how punkrock I am. I own a Zune because I love the horrified reactions it elicits among iPod idolaters.
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macbeach
08/31/09

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As someone who is no big fan of Microsoft, I'm glad to see its minions being sleep and recreation deprived, working for assholes, and in a company town where seeking alternate employment involves selling your house in a long-term down market. Go Softies, you deserve your fate.
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Wrapitup
08/31/09

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For all his workaholism and slave-driving, Bing.com ended up being cheap fucking assholes and stealing kayak.com's UI. And I still use Google and kayak.com because Bing's layout is a counter-intuitive mess of color, words and images.

So get some fucking sleep, Mr. Li. It stimulates the right hemisphere of the brain that governs visual-spatial abilities. Abilities that you and your designers kinda lack.
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skymotel
08/31/09

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This is one of those entries where you want to write a comment but you're afraid of losing online anonymity and work. Gah.
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partypants
08/31/09

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This sounds like the plot of Lethal Weapon 4.
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iplaudius
08/31/09

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If this is a Microsoft PR campaign, it is appropriately backwards, since I like many normal people despise workaholics and desire nothing more than to see them fail. Get a fucking life, Lu.
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JohnnyMau
08/31/09

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That is one ugly mullet...
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SeeingI
08/31/09

@JohnnyMau: HAHA I thought the same thing.
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Maujer
03/10/09

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I just assumed Facebook was a front for some kind of government information-gathering agency. Not that that stops me from using it, mind you... but if they're actually relying on ad revenue instead, they're kind of dumb, no?
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shag_carpet_bomb
03/11/09

@Maujer: My husband thinks the same thing. He made me friend a bunch of people he knew so he could see pictures of their kids, then he finally gave in...
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Accidental Billionaire
03/10/09

In reply to Employees: No 'Awesomeness' at Facebook
I want to break out of my skin and fly. Your commentary is shalow and lacks deep penetration into this sperm fraud extortion ring masquerading as true.

Not one thing of value has ever came out of facebook.

Connectivity? Expression? Human progress? Social Graphs?

How is your unfettered self-aggrandization and stalking progress? A popular site with no profits? If God were to come down to Earth and see you on facebook, he would smite you like hell.

If you use facebook or support it in anyway you're a bad person. It supports murderers, is parasitical, and supports stalking. Also the philosophical principal that empowering communication only unveils the true idiocy and stagnation that society is. We have merit and complexity in technology for a reason. Now we are truly victims to the egotistic amateur.
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BlinkyMcChuck
03/10/09

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Clearly they need the Dennis Cass Awesomizer.
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BadUncle
03/10/09

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It's a fine national address book. They should hire yellow pages sales reps.
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Accidental Billionaire
03/10/09

In reply to Employees: No 'Awesomeness' at Facebook
Again, everytime there is a fad, people flock to it as if it's an establishment.

Between the dying company, and a leader who gives leadership of features and ToS to users, I don't see much strength or vision. Part of being a leader is being elitist and making tough decisions, not giving it to the dumb plebs.

All this tells me is that Facebook sucks to its employees just as much. Shocking, but we're all numb. How does space time allow this corporation to exist?

Venture capitalists have "Bailed out" facebook since its inception. Creating a Terry Schiavo corporation. Controversy aside, I say, pull the plug. I want to see Zuckerberg fail like all other dumb college kids do.
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NortonImbecilium
03/10/09

@Widget Economist:

FAIL?....he's a BILLIONARE...yeah, he's definitely some dumb college kid.
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Owen Thomas
03/10/09

@NortonImbecilium: Actually, not even a paper billionaire, based on the most recent sale value of Facebook shares we've heard about.
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