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psalauntoday at 5:26 AM2 repliesview on HN

I thought this was only an old urban legend; some people actually use this technique? Especially in a trade supposed to be led by people trained in sciences?


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gregatestoday at 8:07 AM

Given how often it's been mentioned here, it's likely that this is an urban legend that people are pretending to have first-hand knowledge of for karma. In a trade that's supposed to be led by people trained in sciences, no less!

(A more charitable interpretation would be that aforementioned CTO was making a joke that didn't land.)

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aquariusDuetoday at 7:19 AM

It's OK! We can disguise it as the Secretary Problem and it'll be fine, we could even write a post on the company blog about it. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem