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This story is ripped off an article from the SF Gate, March 11, 2007: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/11/MNGKKOCBA645.DTL http://www
by antiismist 19y ago
This story is ripped off an article from the SF Gate, March 11, 2007: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/11/MNGKKOCBA645.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/...
Original article:
"I'm looking around and there's gotta be 50 people with laptops," said Brett Levine, 31, a co-founder and the company's lead programmer. "I got on a chair and yelled, 'Hey, are there any ActionScript programmers in the room?' People at the counter looked at me glaringly, but a couple of people looked around and raised their hand."
New article:
So Mr. Levine stood on a chair, and shouted out, “Is anyone here an ActionScript programmer? We’d like to hire you!”
“I got some nasty looks from the baristas,” Mr. Levine recalled, “but that didn’t stop three or four people from coming up to our table and inquiring.”
- allertonm 19y agoIt also says "Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, held weekly meetings there before it was bought by Yahoo." I am pretty sure Flickr was based in Vancouver before they were bought by Yahoo, so this does not smell right. Updated: the SFGate article mentions Flickr too, but says they meet there now - or at least "then" (i.e mid 2007), not pre-Yahoo. So the NYT piece is definitely a pretty poor cut & paste job.
- antiismist 19y agoThat's a good point. This looks like it is from nytimes.com, which is annoying because I think that they are one of the best media sites out there.