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   Chris Ahlstrom to All   
   Re: OT Anyone who buys a PC is a mug!   
   29 Oct 10 06:26:27   
   
   ddda7fbe   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com   
      
   MuahMan pulled this Usenet face plant:   
      
   > On Oct 28, 5:20?pm, Chris Ahlstrom  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Actually, Jobs is a great motivator. ?I remember a biography of him, and it   
   >> noted that Jobs would look at somebody's (good) code, and, pretty much no   
   >> matter what, would say "This code is shit!", just to get the coder angry or   
   >> scared and trying to do better.   
   >   
   > No, that just makes him an asshole.   
      
   I was being funny.  But there are a few "managers" who believe in the same   
   kind of motivational technique.   
      
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   hates his wife.   
      
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