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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by gnarbarian on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:01PM (#18378778)
Because you're the client. You seeing your doctor will always make the doc more money.

To carry this metaphor a step further, you asking for help on a ticket is more like going to the emergency room. If your ticket is a tummy ache you're going to wait. If it's a gunshot wound to the chest you're going to have all the best staff on hand immediately to put out the fire.

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by analog31 on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:43PM (#18378950)
True. Another difference is that it's illegal for me to be my own doctor, but I can be my own programmer. ;-)
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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by lsc on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:20PM (#18379106)
Is it? I mean, practicing medicine on other people is illegal in the US, as I understand it; and you can't obtain certain drugs. But I think everything else the doctor does, you can do to yourself without fear of legal penalty?
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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by Data_Junkie on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:00PM (#18384399)
In the US anything you can legally do for yourself, medically, is not done by the Dr. Other than research.
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