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khurstoday at 4:47 PM0 repliesview on HN

>It lets you treat your employees as a replaceable commodity that can be scaled up and down as it makes monetary sense rather than a cohesive team of skilled artisans.

Jane Street hires devs at high salaries and makes them use OCaml rather than a more mainstream language. The company makes more money trading than traditional giants like JP Morgan do.

So just depends on if your strategy is right. I blame Microsoft incompetence.