First, did others see this HN post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13956807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13956807 RJ Reynolds recruiting guidelin

First, did others see this HN post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13956807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13956807 RJ Reynolds recruiting guideline SPECIFICALLY wanted sales (or marketing) people with 2.8-3.1 GPA. NO wonder so many ad server tags by the sales/marketing types are FULL or errors. Anyhow, the very first time I experience a Mac computer crash HARD was when I opened NYT.com. Yes NYT.com. It was a typical Mon morning, around year 2011. I got into office, got coffee, tapped keyboard the Mac Keyboard to wake up my iMac and proceeded to open the website I opened every morning, nyt.com. I noticed some flash based ad doing some fancy thing in the top banner. But whatever. I continue doing my thing. Wait what? My iMac is frozen. iMac! This can't be true. I frantically pound on keyboard but nothing works. Out of desperation, I finger it. When it comes back up, I slowly bring things up one at a time. And I realize it was the NYT.com's flashy flash ad that caused the crash. When I upgraded my slightly outdated Flash plugin in my Firebox, I could view the nyt.com homepage without my iMac freezing. I could HEAR the mechanical HD in my iMac grinding and CPU widget showing CPU spiking when I open nyt.com homepage. Because of an ad on NYT.com, I'm pretty sure millions of people experienced their computer crash on that Mon morning.