Re: I'll Read This

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"Courtney is always in super-GSD mode."

Courtney is always eating raisins.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 7:24 AM
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They don't time or limit your bathroom breaks, do they? That's some EST-like stuff.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 7:33 AM
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I'm not generally a violent person, but could someone please shoot all of these people?


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:03 AM
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What till they ignore Ogged's application first.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:07 AM
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3:Excellent idea! Very one-plus-one-equals-three!


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:07 AM
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"It's the people from sales," Penny tells me. "They're disgusting."

So, not disrupting everything then.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:09 AM
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3:Excellent idea! Very one-plus-one-equals-three!

On top of that, it would definitely be Disruptive.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:11 AM
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Dharmesh's culture code incorporates elements of HubSpeak. For example, it instructs that when someone quits or gets fired, the event will be referred to as "graduation." In my first month at HubSpot I've witnessed several graduations, just in the marketing department. We'll get an email from Cranium saying, "Team, just letting you know that Derek has graduated from HubSpot, and we're excited to see how he uses his superpowers in his next big adventure!" Only then do you notice that Derek is gone, that his desk has been cleared out. Somehow Derek's boss will have arranged his disappearance without anyone knowing about it. People just go up in smoke, like Spinal Tap drummers.

I kind of wish they'd embraced it fully and called it Carousel.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:15 AM
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"Derek has gone to a better place".


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:23 AM
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"the evolutionary level above coder"


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:24 AM
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"Phil has been sent to the cornfield."


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:25 AM
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That's a promotion where I come from.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:29 AM
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For some reason Winston suddenly found himself thinking of Mrs Parsons, with her wispy hair and the dust in the creases of her face. Within two years those children would be denouncing her to the Thought Police. Mrs Parsons would be vaporized. Syme would be vaporized. Winston would be vaporized. O'Brien would be vaporized. Parsons, on the other hand, would never be vaporized. The eyeless creature with the quacking voice would never be vaporized. The little beetle-like men who scuttle so nimbly through the labyrinthine corridors of Ministries they, too, would never be vaporized. And the girl with dark hair, the girl from the Fiction Department -- she would never be vaporized either. It seemed to him that he knew instinctively who would survive and who would perish: though just what it was that made for survival, it was not easy to say.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:39 AM
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Graduated, ajay. They graduated.


Posted by: Opinionated Hubspot HR | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:45 AM
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"We just didn't feel that strong connection we're looking for with Derek. It's us, not him."

Good luck with the job search!


Posted by: Criminally Bulgur | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:47 AM
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Vaporiz, the startup that's disrupting dystopia!


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:48 AM
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Funny, everybody loves, or is encouraged to love, the buzzwords of mass-market self-salvation when they come from Tina Fey or some YouTube kid or Buzzfeed in a "Julia Child Fights the Patriarchy in 30 .gifs" listicle.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:48 AM
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If I ever get around to founding a start up, part of the objective will be to focus of recruiting people who are Too Old For This Shit.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 8:59 AM
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Danny Glover might be too busy.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 9:01 AM
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Danny Glover is never too busy for Excellence!


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 9:05 AM
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oriz


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 9:12 AM
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It's worth noting that when I say that everyone in this article should die in a fire, I include Dan Lyons as well.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 9:21 AM
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Articles now not only have auto-loading video/audio, the video/audio is sometimes apparently an intrinsic part of the article and in this case I could not find a way to shut it off. So the title of the OP is wrong.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 12:54 PM
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It's easy to mute the sound in Firefox. Not that I read the article.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 12:56 PM
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You can stop autoplay in Chrome by requiring permission to run Flash. Way worth it.


Posted by: F | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 1:06 PM
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This meeting is worse than Hitler. At least in terms of coming to a point.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 1:42 PM
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Somebody found a metaphorical mass of T-34s and now we're moving again.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 1:45 PM
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D'uh. Metaphorical Tiger tank.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 1:46 PM
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28: What a relief! Thought you were going commie on us for a moment there.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 1:51 PM
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There is no Western Front here.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 1:57 PM
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I love my job so much for not being this.


Posted by: Trivers | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 4:35 PM
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Wait, if the meeting is Hitler, doesn't moving it closer to its end mean that those were metaphorical T-34s? I'm confused, but am still willing to say you might be a Nazi.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 04- 7-16 4:45 PM
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I include Dan Lyons as well.

It was striking to me how, more or less the same time he was outed as FSJ, Lyons turned bitter, one-note, unfunny, and insight-free. I genuinely enjoyed FSJ, even as an Apple fan who found him sometimes off-base. It was not unlike Stephen Colbert's character, where you could laugh along even as he gored your ox. But I swear he hasn't written a worthwhile word since, either in the period when he kept the FSJ persona despite being outed, or under his own byline.

That he was a corporate shill is hardly surprising; it seems as if FSJ is the only interesting/thoughtful thing he's ever done.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 04- 8-16 7:52 AM
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Shilling for SCO is pretty evil. It would be a poorer, less innovative world today had SCO succeeded in kneecapping Linux.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04- 8-16 8:00 AM
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Posted by: sathya | Link to this comment | 04- 9-16 4:01 AM
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This is a shitty discussion. You should all be ashamed.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 04- 9-16 4:50 AM
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Thanks for sharing.


Posted by: Menu Template | Link to this comment | 04-12-16 3:01 AM
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