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Old 11-12-2020, 05:35 PM   #189 (permalink)
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I used to sit in a $900 chair and talk to people on the phone about the problems they were having with Windows (and it's registry — a single point of failure).

For money.

The worst was when some jerk in New York City had his life locked up in this box and he was crying about it. We'd joke about how it was 5% suicide prevention.
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