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Reminds of Zynga trying to bully/steal the equity back from employees. I think MBA types just don't consider developers to be equals (is "line value generation
by CmonDev 12y ago
Reminds of Zynga trying to bully/steal the equity back from employees. I think MBA types just don't consider developers to be equals (is "line value generation resources" the right term ?).
- Tloewald 12y agoWhom do MBA types consider as equals?
- kaoD 12y agoMBA types.
- VikingCoder 12y agoClose. MBA types consider MBA types who make more money than they do to be their equals. Therefore, the only way for two MBA types to consider each other equals is for them each to believe that the other makes more money.
- stox 12y agolamprey.
- McDoku 12y agoAnyone with a big enough stick.
- McDoku 12y ago"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it." Charlie Chaplin Ruthless does not mean amoral. And amoung the philisophically iliterate "How to Make Friends and Influence People" can amount to nothing more then patronage and polite cover for knives. Carry your stick publicly if you want your opponent to be forced into showing their nature. The just ruthless are comfortable in the light of scruteny. They are comfortable with accountability and will stand for their actions. It is never just business. It is the definition of a social order and cowards love to cover themselves in niceties.
- McDoku 12y agoAlso in downvote with out comments :)
- phereford 12y agoAs an MBA type, I take extreme offense to your statement. As a full-time programmer, I totally agree with you!
- VikingCoder 12y agoYou're lying. As an MBA, you're considering a VC round to fund a corporation which would attempt to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of all MBAs against people slandering MBAs. Getting an MBA is like gaining vampirism - you need to drain human blood just to stay alive.
- dang 12y agoPersonal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this again.
- VikingCoder 12y agoIs satire allowed? I was responding to a comment that was humorously self-deprecating, and I thought my response's satiric tone was clear. I'm sorry if you or anyone else perceived it as a personal attack. Also, it's a personal attack to satirically compare someone to a vampire, but it's okay to compare someone to a lamprey? Is there some list of blood-sucking creatures I can refer to, which indicates which ones you will consider a personal attack, and which ones you will not? Mosquitoes? Ticks? Patent trolls? :-)
- dang 12y agoSadly, there are enough comments on Hacker News that say such things and mean them that I could not tell that yours was satire. Sorry for misunderstanding. Is satire allowed? Sure, of course. But fluff humor tends to get downvoted, since it mostly leads to more fluff humor, which takes threads off topic. Fluff humor isn't bad in itself, but it's bad when it obscures high-quality content.
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