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"In my experience," I told her, "freelancers try to do 50 things, and they end up doing a 5% job on each of them."

That's the kind of math I expect from a site called Free Money Finance.




Not necessarily concurrently?


Well maybe if more freelancers used Erlang, this wouldn't be an issue


Each of the 50 things could be done to a 100%. They only do 5% of the 100% necessary for each thing. That's what I think he means.


So they get 2.5x as much done?




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