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   Chris Ahlstrom to All   
   Re: OT Anyone who buys a PC is a mug!   
   29 Oct 10 19:06:33   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com   
      
   Clavicus Vile pulled this Usenet face plant:   
      
   >   
   > "Chris Ahlstrom"  wrote in message   
   > news:iae7fs$3kr$8@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > He must have good body guards, or either that nobody's telling how many   
   > times somebody went apeshit on Jobs.   
      
   What!!?  And get fired from the Mac team!!?   
      
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