My nerdy pilgrimage to the Microsoft campus in Seattle

That's because of his obesity.
It's pretty hard to point your unit straight in a hole when your belly blocks the view and a significant part of your penis is buried in your groin fat.
Local archies should confirm.

is this guy a meme? is even he a real guy? what's the angle here? I don't care enough to look any of this up.

He's Microsoft's answer to Stallman.

So he doesn't know the meaning of words.

From this article I get the feeling Microsoft is just fucking around now and living off the profits of past glories.

You have to remember that Microsoft used to be the big bad back in the day. Their tradition hasn't gone away, but this is comedy gold. It's the Microsoft™ Honor System™.

Bad answer if there ever was one. Stallman is a certified genius.

Is this like if IN Elite actually got a job with nvidia?

false there's always diabetes

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if we're talking about microsofts hidden insane prophet then that has to be the guy that wrote search for the MSDNN docs.