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<node id="421114" title="Tanktalus" created="2005-01-10 17:07:33" updated="2005-10-27 11:41:05">
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&lt;p&gt;Perl(ish) humour:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;[http://img186.echo.cx/img186/8749/vi7kt.gif|Revenge of Clippy]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some people have asked a few questions about me.  For example, where my
nick comes from.  Or where I'm employed.  So I'm going to address the latter.
I work for a rather large software development company whose name I'm sure
many people here will recognise.  Some of these will recognise it as a
competitor, others possibly as an ally or partner.  Thus, I am not going to
make it explicit.  I don't want those who think that this company is great
to give me undeserved respect, nor those who think of me as a dirty competitor
to give me undeserved disrespect.  Further, I don't want to know if you
work for a competitor - I want to keep plausible deniability if it turns out
that I'm "helping the competition" (which would be expressly against my
employment contract).  Rather than face that type of quandary, it's much
easier to just be helpful (and be helped) in ignorance of where my help
is being used (or coming from).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The truly curious can figure it out through a couple of really straight-forward
google searches.  I can do nothing to stop you from doing this, but I highly
discourage it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PM Contributions: [http://tanktalus.dreamhosters.com/cbstats|Chatterbox (CB) Stats], [last hour of cb].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And the most linked to node (other than [paco]'s lone node), and still severely underlinked, [id://172086].&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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