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There's an old joke - field marshal Model is asked the secret of his success as a commander. He says the key is managing the men under you. They are smart or st
by Tloewald 15y ago
There's an old joke - field marshal Model is asked the secret of his success as a commander. He says the key is managing the men under you. They are smart or stupid, energetic or lazy. The smart and energetic make excellent field commanders, the smart and lazy make good staff officers, and the lazy and stupid can handle supply. And the lazy and energetic? Transfer them elsewhere.
Adobe isn't lazy. It takes extra work to implement multiple cross platform ui libraries with twenty different slider widgets none of which work quite right.
- wtracy 15y agoI think you meant that the "dumb and energetic" should be transferred elsewhere. Somewhere I heard a variation on this quote, attributed to Napoleon, that his solution for the dumb and enthusiastic was to "shoot them".
- crazygringo 15y agoI heard a variation say that the dumb and energetic were cannon fodder.
- Tloewald 15y agoRight, dumb and energetic, oops.