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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by jemfinch on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @01:35PM (#3353003)
The demand for inconvenient truths is always lower than the demand for reassuring lies. My tone is as polite as I could make it while making the points that I believe needed to be made.
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by up_and_up on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @01:41PM (#3353016)
Lol. I said "tome". As in a lengthy diatribe. The "tone" of your comment seemed fine.
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by zasz on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:27PM (#3353212)
I thought you'd made a typo. A "tome" is a heavy book, not a lengthy diatribe. The book could be a lengthy diatribe, but it could also be an annotated edition of The Odyssey. I suppose you could have called a long comment a "tome" out of playfulness, but it wasn't the clearest choice of words.
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by omarchowdhury on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @04:53PM (#3353798)
The tone in his usage of the word tome reminds me of tl;dr, or rather, tl; did read but will not argue your points.

Although the original post does come off as ad hominem.

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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by frou_dh on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @08:10PM (#3354569)
"ad hominem" is totally going on the HN bingo card :)
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by waterlesscloud on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @08:13PM (#3354575)
Right next to "Dunning-Kruger", I hope.

Actually, it's always "Dunning-Kruger" with a link to the wikipedia article to make it more authoritative.

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