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It's a new type of yoga where you jump up and down while repeating your mantra. (His is "Developers".)
Re:My Talk at Microsoft
by WorldMaker on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:39PM
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Most everyone makes fun of that mantra moment, but Ballmer was right, Microsoft has always historically done its best work when it put Developers first. Ballmer wasn't always great at executing a developer-first vision (particularly compared to the modern open source era of Azure/WSL/VS Code/…) [ETA: partly because Ballmer was not himself a developer and needed the reminders], but it's weird to criticize him for shouting about how developers should be the core to what Microsoft builds (and sells).
I agree with you. He was 100% correct. And that's why the company is top in valuation.
And I love to develop on Microsoft. Best toolset around. I use C#/F#/C++ on Windows 10
Re:My Talk at Microsoft
by nitePhyyre on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:10PM
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The criticism isn't that he was shouting about how developers were the core to business. The criticism is just that he looked silly doing it.
No one disagrees with him on his thesis. It's just that the way he presented it was extremely funny.
Re:My Talk at Microsoft
by crankylinuxuser on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:37PM
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I'd imagine him doing a mudra of the chant...
Devvvvvv-ellll-opersssss
:D
> Perhaps his new-found peace with Linux is linked to yoga, a practice he said he has taken up after leaving Microsoft in 2014.