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August 12, 2006

Funniest. Swag. Evar.

Having witnessed a few cycles of on-campus recruiting from both sides, and having been subject to miscellaneous corporate promotional events, I thought I had seen it all with respect to company swag. I was secure in this notion until I saw this
Source Force
Back at MIT, when morale on a class project was running low, we'd pep ourselves up by conferring on everyone in the team the honorable title of Code Warrior. Now, that veritable institution has been reduced to a mere action figure! My, what is the world coming to?

The FAQ is crafted rather too funnily, especially for Microsoft, whose documents are saddled with too many disclaimers or littered with opaque internal jargon. I do feel like I am the object of faux condescension when I read their FAQ. Contrast similar user-facing documents from Google, which are nice to a fault. I haven't made up my mind about which I prefer.

Posted by Vishy at August 12, 2006 12:59 PM

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