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By which they mean, "Leaving the repository owner bleeding out from a cut carotid artery, never knowing what happened to them?"

Didn't we make a pact to stop using "ninja" and "rock star"? Excepting, of course, an interviewee who a) arrives in the conference room via the air ducts while the the interview's back is turned, or b) who snorts lines of coke off the whiteboard tray and then smashes holes in the sheetrock walls with a Fender Stratocaster.



My first thought reading the title was also "isn't this 'ninja' thing a bit old by now?", then I saw the date - 2012.


Ah, thanks. That's helpful.


Why hello, speedy downvoter! Care to make your criticism explicit?


Looks like you got down voted by a ninja. Heh




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