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The Graphing Calculator Story.mp4 54:26 - 3 years ago goog://

I find the story to be just the opposite: such behaviour of The Corporation is not motivating at all, in the productive sense. It is rather motivating to do something completely different from productive coding/work.

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He's talking about the behavior of the employees who made the program.

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The problem is, that he lowers the bar, strongly encouraging the "management™"[1] to AAPLy the mushrooming[2] technique, which I believe they [did] do.

[1] imho the whole story is BS (because he was bound to bump into someone, if not when going to the bathroom). AAPL is one of the few public companies being openly secretive, and they are known to use [military grade, an HP heritage] security: you simply cannot clown around for long unwantedly.

[2] Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

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And he's talking about the insidious behavior of Apple.

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I think you('ll) enjoy the play:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_&_Guildenstern_...