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Re:The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted... by tptacek on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @04:23PM (#8764436)
I downvoted this comment, but that was dumb of me; I should have clicked through to the user profile. If you're going to write something like this and sign your name to it, you should get some of the benefit of the doubt. Which is what you did.

Sorry for the downvote.

Also: wow.

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Re:The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted... by tptacek on Thursday December 18, 2014 @12:05AM (#8766044)
"Your sense of humor is a bit of a high-wire act, isn't it?"
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Re:The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted... by birken on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:31AM (#8766251)
Yeah it was in this case. I've clearly got to know my audience a little better.
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Re:The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted... by tptacek on Thursday December 18, 2014 @12:37PM (#8768523)
To the extent it's an audience thing, it's got more to do with the audience not knowing what would or wouldn't be a credible thing to say about the internal workings of the search and "deals" team inside Google.

If anything, I'm inclined to think charitably about Google, because my contacts there are on the security team and are uniformly excellent people.

I know the feeling though; I've taken similar swings at deadpan humor and struck out, too.

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Re:The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted... by gcb0 on Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:04PM (#8777128)
everyone knows the good grunts on evil companies. but unless you know the execs, don't go with that.

i bet lots of good, honest people worked for Enron.

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Re:The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted... by dctoedt on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:25PM (#8765089)
Upvoted to compensate (I probably would have ignored the comment otherwise).
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