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Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010?
- InfinityX0 16y agoBill Gates, Hero.
- jeromec 16y agoWhatever he was arrested for looks like it was worth it.
- thought_alarm 16y agoApparently, it was for driving under the influence of a flowery shirt.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoI seem to vaguely remember Pirates of Silicon Valley portraying it as a large speeding offense in a really expensive sports car. But they probably sexed it up quite a bit from the truth...
- kingkilr 16y agoI seem to recall a race with large construction vehicles.
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- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoNow that you mention it, that sounds right. Apparently my memories are getting mixed up; it's been many years since I watched that film.
- commandar 16y agoI don't recall what they covered in Pirates (pretty sure the bulldozer race is in there), but BG definitely has a reputation for liking fast cars. In fact, Gates and Paul Allen lobbied to get changes to US auto regulations passed so that they could import Porsche 959s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959#.22Gates_959.22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959#.22Gates_959.22
- ArcticCelt 16y agoNah, I have a particularly good memory for movie scenes. The construction vehicles scene and arrest scene are two different things. Bill gets arrested while speeding (while singing Sinatra's My Way in a sports car) and he wreck Paul Allen's car in the different bulldozer scene. Of course this is a movie so both can be pure fiction.
- philwelch 16y agoHe was arrested for speeding. He smashed up Paul Allen's car racing bulldozers.
- jra101 16y agoThat's what I remember from a biography or autobiography I read, but it has been a while...
- grinich 16y agoWhen Microsoft was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the late 70s, Bill Gates bought a Porsche 911 and used to race it in the desert. He was arrested for speeding 3 times. Paul Allen had to bail him out of jail after one midnight escapade.
- unohoo 16y agoSeriously ? Too much free time ?
- NathanKP 16y agoArticles like this are time wasting link bait. HN seems to have had a particularly poor selection of top rated articles recently.
- ritonlajoie 16y agoWell, this article made me laugh and it's the weekend ! Just relax, I guess many of us are enjoying this kind of articles from time to time. I do agree with you that sometime, too many links like that are not what we are supposed to share, but hey, this one was good !
- barrkel 16y agoThere's been a definite increase in trivial and flippant comments from new users, too.
- zabraxias 16y agoBest article ever? I bet if someone mass produced those glasses...I have my first YCombinator idea!
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- scythe 16y agoThis has to have been covertly leaked by said 'cheeky developer'. I refuse to believe that anyone found this randomly.
- eogas 16y agoHah, this is fantastic. I love how Microsoft routinely make fun of themselves. You can see this same mugshot picture in this commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NOblvuEpU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NOblvuEpU And has anyone visited the MSDN portal recently? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
- rbanffy 16y ago> And has anyone visited the MSDN portal recently? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx Can't find anything.
- eogas 16y agoHint: What does the D stand for in MSDN? Bigger Hint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE
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- msbarnett 16y agoIt took me a minute. It's the banner. "Developers Developers Developers"
- rbanffy 16y agoFound that. Didn't think this was the joke.
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