I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
Person: What do you do?
Me: I’m a computer programmer at Microsoft.
Person: <viciously> I hate you.
If Miss Manners didn’t say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless agree that snarling “I hate you” to somebody on first introduction is not exactly getting off on the right foot.
[Raymond is currently away; this message was pre-recorded.]
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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