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buran77yesterday at 3:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

The usual argumentation is "I need to make a living" and "if I didn't build it someone else would have done an even worse job, like this at least I could be an activist on the inside and guide the efforts to make it better".


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MSFT_Edgingyesterday at 3:49 PM

Another method is to stall and sabotage the development via endless bike shedding, language changes, rewrites, refactors. All normal things in every project. Drag those feet.

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deauxyesterday at 3:59 PM

Which are of course delusional excuses when they come from anyone working at Google.

Then they'll come with "but I have a family and mortgage". No shit, so does literally everyone.

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