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Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by atq2119 »

zrkrlc wrote: post #319
cbozeman wrote: post #305

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> (Or maybe I'm 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing.) You're 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing. > BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft look stupid rather than clever - especially as a catch-up to Sun Microsystems. He was pissed because, wh…

I think if you’re responsible for eradicating polio, you can be as shitty as you like.

I'm pretty sure even something like that doesn't give you carte blanche for, say, murdering people. So there's a line to be drawn, and reasonable people can disagree on where exactly to draw it.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by kyberias »

bethesda_md wrote: post #338

This is definitely real, I can verify. I am from Seattle, and my mom was working at Microsoft when this happened, and she did not remember anything about it, but then they asked her friends and one of them still has a Microsoft Coffee box! At this point, he should probably sell it as a collectors item!

Verification from a throw-away account.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by rancar2 »

Exmoor wrote: post #294
iso1210 wrote: post #117

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whatthesmack confirmed the man was Keith Eldridge It's unlikely that 'someone at the station' could confirm that clip was real, getting archive footage from that time would be difficult. I worked on various shows in the 00s, there's no way I'd remember any packages we broadcast, and there's no easy access to archives before 2008. We've been digitising decades of cut news packages in foreign bureaus for years, but I d…

Lifelong Seattle resident here. Yea, that's Keith Eldridge and everything there looks perfectly accurate to 1996 KOMO. Here's a 5yr old video of Keith for age comparison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXIc5SQxG3o

Well, that was a lovely video in itself. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by BoDlulu »

neom wrote: post #214
brundolf wrote: post #65

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The news footage is pretty convincing

I just called KOMO. They confirmed they covered it, the footage is real, and it happened. In fact, the archives tech I talked to remembered it.

How do we know the above comment isn't an April Fool's joke?

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by ipython »

jhugo wrote: post #360
judge2020 wrote: post #93

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Ah ok, I thought Letsencrypt was the only available auto-issuing CA on Google Cloud but that must have changed with GKE. The 1e100 address is probably pointed at a gke load balancer then.

Why GKE? It's probably just a static site hosted on Google Sites or something...

It is hosted on google sites. The little (I) pop up in the bottom corner gives it away.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by dang »

purple_ferret wrote: post #123
Geeflow wrote: post #34

Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)

We know Satya Nadella has a Hacker News team to speak positively about Micro$oft and defend it here. The real Conspiracy question is if they've been 'activated' to help cover up this story by trying to claim it itself is a hoax.

You broke the HN guidelines badly with this. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.

As they explain, if you have evidence of abuse on HN, you should be emailing hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. But other commenters having different $BigCo tastes from you doesn't count as evidence.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by neom »

BoDlulu wrote: post #384
neom wrote: post #214

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I just called KOMO. They confirmed they covered it, the footage is real, and it happened. In fact, the archives tech I talked to remembered it.

How do we know the above comment isn't an April Fool's joke?

Easy: my mother drilled it into me for years that a prank played after 12 noon on April 1st made you the fool, I've abided by that rule of the game for 35 years, I'm not about to start breaking it now.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by WalterBright »

WalterBright wrote: post #274
honkdaddy wrote: post #74

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Yeah - I feel as if the task of building a fake news desk, hiring two (very convincing) actors to pose as anchors, filming it, and chopping it up in Premiere to give it the VHS look is way more effort than someone would put into a prank like this.

You'd also have to duplicate 90's hairstyles and clothing, which isn't that easy.

I note that the thing "period" movies usually get wrong is the hairstyle, as the actors are reluctant to adopt the historical hairstyles. Even Star Trek TOS is plagued by 1960s hairstyles.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by judge2020 »

ma2rten wrote: post #138
mmmmmbop wrote: post #89

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I'm seriously confused by the backlash to the Voltswagen stunt. The first thing I thought when I read the headline was that this was obviously an early April fool's day joke. Perhaps people are just upset that they didn't get it and are blaming Volkswagen to avoid admitting that they were a bit too gullible around April 1st.

It's because it was not released on April fools.

I saw it as trying to get ahead of the news cycle - like how Burger King announced their prank that everything would be served on sourdough bread on March 31 instead of day-of.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by efreak »

jhugo wrote: post #360
judge2020 wrote: post #93

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Ah ok, I thought Letsencrypt was the only available auto-issuing CA on Google Cloud but that must have changed with GKE. The 1e100 address is probably pointed at a gke load balancer then.

Why GKE? It's probably just a static site hosted on Google Sites or something...

IIRC, Google sites doesn't actually have static sites.
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