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Reminds me of the Microsoft quote someone here brought up yesterday, "I've said it before and I'll say it again, we're too damn disorganized to be as evil as yo
by jonesb6 11y ago
Reminds me of the Microsoft quote someone here brought up yesterday, "I've said it before and I'll say it again, we're too damn disorganized to be as evil as you think we are."
Given Yahoo's track record it is much easier to believe this whole mess was due to ineptitude by management/hr, yet sexual discrimination is a much 'sexier' headline so they went with that.. and oh look all the "super smart" people on hacker news still "circle jerk" over it. It's almost like were not a superior community and are quite comparable to the rest of the internet..
- melted 11y agoWhen it comes to evil, Microsoft was as organized as Sheldon Cooper's desk drawers when I worked there. Disclaimer: that was well over a decade ago. Most product discussions (and therefore decisions), for example, were in terms of killing competition, not in terms of building a better product, and war rhetoric in general was quite prevalent. I kind of understand it, it's easier to motivate people to work hard if they believe they're at war (as Joseph Goebbels once astutely pointed out), but my god, what a shitty way to build products.
- randycupertino 11y ago> "I've said it before and I'll say it again, we're too damn disorganized to be as evil as you think we are." That's actually hilarious. Our defense is... our ineptitude!
- th0waway 11y agomaybe not intentionally evil, but an 'emergent evil' caused by the sum of behaviours and thought patterns.