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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by mrec on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:00PM (#16804081)
> And we are talking about brilliant minds with very positive personalities.

Do you think "very positive personalities" were a plus in this case? Obviously you don't want homicidal sociopaths on the team, but someone whose first thought was "What's the worst possible thing that could happen here?" might have come in handy.

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by bronson on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:24PM (#16805600)
The worst possible thing that could happen here was the Germans create the bomb first.
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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by sametmax on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:03AM (#16808981)
But we didn't use the bomb to win against the nazi.

And saying having the bomb is the only way to counter the enemy building one is excluding the search of any other possible solution.

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