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Re:How to impress Joel Spolsky by rlmw on Friday December 10, 2010 @11:49PM (#1994201)
"Ashton even wrote a macro for Jeff that automated that one task. Jeff didn’t want to get caught, so he refused to install it. They weren’t on speaking terms after that. It was awkward."

My favourite quote.

Re:How to impress Joel Spolsky by unoti on Saturday December 11, 2010 @12:47AM (#1994287)
It's so true, too. Productivity really does alienate slackers. Who was it that said small teams Do not tolerate freeloaders?
Re:How to impress Joel Spolsky by dkarl on Saturday December 11, 2010 @01:50AM (#1994380)
To be fair to Jeff, he understood that Ashton was in the wrong place to be doing what he was doing. He might as well have been knitting mittens in the Congo. It took Ashton two years to realize that Jeff was the one who understood what the company offered and what the company expected in return.