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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by katbyte on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @06:37PM (#5871174)
> Are you fucking kidding me? That's what 21 year olds do.

Not all, i have the pleasure of working with some 20-22 year olds who would be very unlikely to make such a statement.

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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by coldtea on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:29PM (#5871804)
Sure, not all.

That goes without saying as the intended meaning for every* use of "everybody", "nobody", "every", "all" etc in normal conversation. Those are statistical qualifiers, not absolutes.

(*well, almost every -- which reinforces my point).

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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by katbyte on Thursday June 13, 2013 @03:10PM (#5875962)
Thats why i personally try to not used absolutes conversation, because some people do think like that where of every X is Y.
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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by NotOscarWilde on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:18PM (#5876939)
As long as you don't remind anyone that uses it implicitly that he is wrong, feel free to use it as you wish.
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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by cgag on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @08:51PM (#5871691)
Is thinking these problems are likely common across all gigantic companies really so egregious?
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