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Re:Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior dev and h... by marcosdumay on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @12:32PM (#11910305)
I'd say the onus is on the person trying to train "empathy" to perceive the conversation is awkward and get to relate to you in a different manner.

But if it's you trying to train it, the onus is on you to make it not awkward. Because everybody do default to this conversation.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior dev and h... by CiPHPerCoder on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @12:40PM (#11910361)
Quite right. In a one-on-one conversation, I know how to conduct myself to make it less awkward for the other person, but I still feel like I'm lying by omission when I answer questions like that.
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