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		lmm on Oct 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "No, it's less effort than that" > The reward is your salary/bonus/stock, and it obviously works… because work gets done and tech talent is well-remunerated for it. By that logic, responding to requests for estimates with sarcasm and cynicism also works, because work gets done and tech talent is well-remunerated for it.

23B1 on Oct 23, 2023 [–]

The dudes who respond to requests for estimates with sarcasm and cynicism get fired. I’ve fired them.

lmm on Oct 23, 2023 | [–]

Maybe in some businesses. I suspect those business do less well than the ones that fire people like you instead.

23B1 on Oct 23, 2023 | | [–]

I keep forgetting that HN skews more and more young every day.

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