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		dang on May 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it s... This comment breaks the HN guidelines by calling names. Please don't do that on this site. The old-fashioned technology flamewar is one of the things we're trying to avoid here, regardless of how one feels about Microsoft etc. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770051 and marked it off-topic.

chflags on May 27, 2016 [–]

OP: "... cemented them as assholes in my mind."

That's "name-calling".

But I understand the need to detach the silly hyperbolic responses my comment triggered. I was not expecting those.

Please accept my apologies for any incomvenience I may have caused.

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