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Re:Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still pr... by MaxBarraclough on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:55PM (#20560336)
> like cutting off your left arm because you still have your right arm

This ignores that it discards specialisation, not merely quantity, and that testers are generally cheaper than developers.

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Re:Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still pr... by solstice on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:02PM (#20570803)
Re: specialization. Most people aren't ambidextrous afaik and will have a hard time retraining to do things with another hand. So I think the metaphor still holds
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