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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by ljm on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:36PM (#29816107)
The HN Law of Analogical Accuracy: for each attempt at an analogy, an attempt at a more accurate yet more abstract analogy exists in a reply.
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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by FridgeSeal on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @06:33PM (#29816808)
If it continues long enough, so we eventually reach a point where the original situation is used as the analogy?
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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by quacked on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:24PM (#29818348)
Hilarious. "... Okay, but this is more like if instead of on a cruise ship in Borneo, the monkey is a guy at an engineering interview who only has JavaScript on his resume, and the recruiter is making him implement linked lists in C."
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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by rixed on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:34AM (#29820174)
It actually happened already, right down below:

> It'd be a bit like 'someone else has set up a software development environment for you, now write some code' I suppose.

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by ljm on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:09AM (#29821121)
It just goes round in circles for eternity; the never-ending search for the Aptest of Comparisons.
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