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Here's the money quote: I'm officially quitting that job on national TV The use of the word 'job' there implies The Job, not 'the job on the project', hence
by tomfakes 15y ago
Here's the money quote:
I'm officially quitting that job on national TV
The use of the word 'job' there implies The Job, not 'the job on the project', hence the overall confusion - people taking the words as said, not as meant
Note: Did HN just screw up this same posting?
- rsanheim 15y agoAgreed, interesting that Yegge stresses project in his post when he clearly says job in the video.
- jshen 15y agoHe said it more than once, and clearly said project one of those times. He also gave context that made it quite clear he was talking about the project.
- nimblegorilla 15y agoHe made it pretty clear that he was quitting "that job" and going to study more bioinformatics. As far as I know Google doesn't do a lot of bioinformatics. Peppered with a couple of his midlife crisis comments it seems like a fair assumption that he was leaving Google. At no time in the video did he explicitly say that he was staying.
- jshen 15y agoHm, i just rewatched it and you are right. When I watched it the first I took it to mean that project, but it was confusing.
- brown9-2 15y agoDisagree. After watching the video, he talks about the project, mentions quitting "that job", and then the speech is over. Not that any of it really matters - but the statement in the video is confusing.
- jshen 15y agoYeah, you are right