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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ companies. If you sign purchase orders or you have any clue about the
budget of your group, you're almost certainly not a kernel manager.
These suggestions may or may not apply to you.
-First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful
+First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People", and NOT read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture.
(*) This document does so not so much by answering the question, but by
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ To solve this problem, you really only have two options:
The option of being unfailingly polite really doesn't exist. Nobody will
trust somebody who is so clearly hiding his true character.
-(*) Paul Simon sang "Fifty Ways to Lose Your Lover", because quite
+(*) Paul Simon sang "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover", because quite
frankly, "A Million Ways to Tell a Developer He Is a D*ckhead" doesn't
scan nearly as well. But I'm sure he thought about it.
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ sadly that you are one too, and that while we can all bask in the secure
knowledge that we're better than the average person (let's face it,
nobody ever believes that they're average or below-average), we should
also admit that we're not the sharpest knife around, and there will be
-other people that are less of an idiot that you are.
+other people that are less of an idiot than you are.
Some people react badly to smart people. Others take advantage of them.