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Re:Ask HN: Negotiating Salary by llaolleh on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:12PM (#27335756)
A lot of these comments are not fond of the author's arrogance... Which seems to be a little nitpicky.

The techniques won't work if you use them verbatim because someone else who has read the book will recognize it.

He simplifies things to a set of rules, but it's up to you to be judicious on when to use them and to do your homework on what the underlying principles are.

Re:Ask HN: Negotiating Salary by BeetleB on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:38PM (#27337098)
> A lot of these comments are not fond of the author's arrogance... Which seems to be a little nitpicky.

Arrogance is one thing. Outright misleading/lying about what other books say is another.