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Re:Philosophies for Software Engineers by abduhl on Saturday February 13, 2016 @03:16PM (#11095495)
Have you tried this? In other words, have you abandoned 100% of your programming work in order to try soft skills?

Were you just as successful as your archetype businessperson?

If you haven't then how you look at it is just a construction of your imagination created to fellate your own ego.

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Re:Philosophies for Software Engineers by amelius on Saturday February 13, 2016 @05:27PM (#11095946)
Even if the businessperson would be 5x as effective as I am on "soft" problems, I would still be 10x more effective than this businessperson on "hard" problems :)

So, to return to the original argument: should I simply accept that business-people make more money than I do? ...

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