Oh it's that guy? yeah, there's another thing he did: Write scammy Scareware [0] which he got sued [1] for and settled [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8 [1] https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/ne [2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/1593468/internetshield...

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cubefox 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Still arguably a minor sin compared to his botched file copy time estimation algorithm. :)

	▲	esseph 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Getting to the REAL hard hitting issues here on hn ;)

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greyface- 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

[1] appears truncated, I think you meant: https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

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techjamie 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It makes me sad that video doesn't have 100k views at least. He tried so hard to bury it and it kinda worked, but it's a well put together documentary on the stuff he pulled in the 00s.

It'd be one thing if he owned up to it and admitted what he did was wrong but he's grown past it. His attempts to obscure it away just tell me he hasn't changed. Which is funny, because his videos gave me a grifter vibe I couldn't quite place until I learned about his history.

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blibble 5 days ago | parent [-]

> Which is funny, because his videos gave me a grifter vibe I couldn't quite place until I learned about his history.

for me it was him boasting about his amazing game changing contributions to Windows

when he mostly did thing like lay out the widgets on the format dialog

he's no Dave Cutler

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polishdude20 5 days ago | parent [-]

I feel like boasting about something you did 20 years ago is kind of cringe. I think you've had enough time throughout those years to receive the fruits of your labour for it. Now it just feels like he's milking it?

	▲	jeroenhd 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		He doesn't seem to have a lot of stories to tell about his time at Microsoft, but the few he does have were pretty interesting to hear. I think he got used to the dopamine rush of internet praise, ran out of interesting things to say, and kind of pivoted. I would've done the same. It's not like he needs to peddle merch or anything, I doubt he needs the income. His whole channel seems to just be a hobby and talking about old MS stories attracts Youtuber viewers en masse. I think there are quite a few more interesting stories he could tell from his more recent time as a malware/scareware developer, but the internet probably won't be quite as appreciative of them as his Task Manager story.