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menzoic on July 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer

You compare two people who have different skills. Presumably either one could learn the skills of the other. Why choose the one with the easiest skills to learn?

eldavido on July 30, 2014 [–]

Because learning skills takes time, and in tech, time is everything.

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