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This is also why the best armies throughout history have always executed their own battalions after every successful battle. Read your history books, people!
by pje 8y ago
This is also why the best armies throughout history have always executed their own battalions after every successful battle. Read your history books, people!
- z3t4 8y agoDo you have any references ? Edit: I'm looking for book / article recommendations as I like reading history, and can't believe they executed their own battalions.
- lostlogin 8y agoHigh grade sarcasm detected.
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- stefs 8y agosarcasm, i guess - i interpret the statement as: why would you want to keep competent people around, even though their specialties lie in a different area? because competent people are usually also competent when employed in a slightly different sector; the mythical super-programmer is unlikely to depend on a specific language/technology anyway. the comparison wasn't a very good one though: firing your army could lead to soldiers defecting to a possible future enemy, who would then be stronger in an attack. so what does oracle gain by firing a couple of excellent java devs? + no wages paid - they could defect to a rivaling database company: unlikely - bad press: oh well, that's just another drop in the bucket - they lose a couple of experienced engineers that could have excelled in other projects