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by jasonkostempski 2941 days ago
Someone's got to bring the rage. These teenagers today have been made docile by the software and devices created by the likes of MS, so us Gen X curmudgeons need to pick up the slack, just like we do for everything else they should be responsible for.

*I originally typed that jokingly playing the role of a stereotypical Gen Xer. When I took off my stage costume, I realized I was wearing the same outfit underneath. ./midlifecrisis.sh
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kjeetgill 2941 days ago
I think the part of the M$ rage that feels reactionary and knee jerky is simply that it's so trivial to leave github behind for any of the 2-3 comparable competitors. It takes what, 5 minutes?

What's really at stake here for anyone but actual enterprise customers?

PS - > When I took off my stage costume, I realized I was wearing the same outfit underneath.

That's a beautiful sentence. It deservers to be the last sentence in the kind of book they make you read in high school.

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