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The Four Official Core Values:

- Respect: Treating others as one would like to be treated, while explicitly rejecting ruthlessness, callousness, and arrogance.

- Integrity: Working with customers and prospects openly, honestly, and sincerely, and honoring commitments.

- Communication: Maintaining an obligation to talk and listen to one another, believing information is meant to move people.

- Excellence: Demanding the very best in all operations and continuously raising performance standards.

-Enron

They've had a lot of practice. Usain Bolt was also really fast because he ran a lot.

No doubt. It's been a very long time since Bioware was a great studio.

CDPR is probably the flagship studio in Europe. Interestingly, they are probably the modern studio that most resembles Bioware in the 2000's.

Don't forget ME:Andromeda (2017). The truth is that it has been almost 15 years since Bioware made an even arguably great game.

Cringely was a character. I can't say he changed the world in a major way - he was no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Heck, he wasn't even Eric Schmidt. But he was a clever, charming, and interesting person, and his coverage of the tech industry made it feel a lot more glamorous that it really was. He was also a fabulist and possibly even a bit of a scoundrel. That said, I do think our industry was better with him in it.

Agree, it was so well written, warm, and entertaining that I was really excited to read more. Womp womp.

I noticed this too in the footer "I write here on the semi-rare occasion I feel like writing."

Yeah, no kidding man :)

What topic?

It's interesting. That's it. That's the only criteria.

Yeah, those are all legit gripes about modern operating system UX, but none of them are automatically fixed with skeuomorphism, and none of them couldn't be fixed with clearer design regardless of approach.

At least they're consistent about UX. My only complaint is that it needs more tabs.

Of course he does. He is comically ignorant.

This is just sentimental nonsense. You are not obligated to patronize or be friendly to evil people.

I wouldn't call Canadians smarmy, just a bit overly friendly.