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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by aub3bhat on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @03:34AM (#12253140)
Thats like saying programming is fancy way of saying "banging fingers on keyboard".
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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by vacri on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:36AM (#12253837)
Let me paraphrase the parent:

"fiscal gibberish, fiscal gibberish, Then, in the very small chance that your equity is actually worth something [sic], fiscal gibberish, fiscal gibberish"

Sounds almost like the definition of a lottery to me.

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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by signa11 on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:27AM (#12253283)
> Thats like saying programming is fancy way of saying "banging fingers on keyboard".

perhaps you were referring to the 'infinite monkey theorem' ? i would rather believe programming to be nothing like that.

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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by collyw on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:17AM (#12253406)
test driven development seems to encourage that. Bang away until it turns green.
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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by hardlianotion on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:07AM (#12253737)
You should try precisely that - much harder to do than it seems.
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