Word: angeloff
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...metal, each polished to perfection for a punishing 15 hours, lie on workbenches in varying states of completion. The team of six engineers putting them together has gone four days with less than four hours' sleep each night. There's a maniacal tinge to their humor. Bald-pated Drew Angeloff has taken to teasing his colleagues with the blue flame of his soldering equipment. "Help!" one screams. "A skinhead with a blowtorch...
...someone's garage trying to invent the next Mac. This is Microsoft's Red West campus, in the Olympian heights of Redmond, Wash. These sleep-deprived souls are software engineers--trained to write code, not dirty their hands with metalwork. Which explains why Angeloff has accidentally soldered the wrong pieces of circuitry together in one of the boxes. The engineers have been up so long on this frazzled assembly line because their boss--Bill Gates, a man whose tolerance for failure is minuscule--needs to demonstrate his company's tentative entry into the games-console market. "It's like...
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