Bad Jakob, bad! No, no, no, no, no!!
Okay, okay…it’s a mean evilspirited thing to do. But it’s still funny.
I briefly (VERY briefly!!) worked with Jakob Nielsen when he was at Sun Microsystems (and Rick Levine, too…legends tarnish when you get up close. Maybe they’re brilliant, but they make my stunted interpersonal skills like quite suave and sophisticated.) He left the company a few months before I did. Also keep in mind that Sun Microsystems, even just the Silicon Valley campuses, is hugehugeHUGE. There were a couple hundred folks (4 or 5 hundred, I think) working at the poky little location I was housed at. And that doesn’t touch on the larger downtown location, the Menlo Park campus, and the *other* Cupertino subcampus. Needless to say, I didn’t see him much. But it’s always amusing to have read his columns for so many years, even worked in the same building with him…and see 1) so many instances where he’s just plain wrong, 2) that his aesthetic is about as creative as a dead yak and his ego is what one might politely refer to as “overweening”, and c) lots of other people have taken potshots at him, too.
Everyone who hates spam — it’s all Jakob Nielsen’s fault, apparently. (Either that, or it’s a myth that’s so beloved that not only will it not die, Disney will make it into an animated feature in another 20 years.)
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