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Let's not get caught up in metaphors and analogies...but if you install a terrible roof, you don't get a dime you until you fix the leaks.

If you come develop for me and do nothing but cry that you can't do a proper slice append in go and you need us to change our stack to elixir because you're used to it, all I get is a fight with HR for 3 months getting a paper trail together to fire you while I pay you $40k.

Not to mention there's a whole sales model of household appliances where they very much come in and demonstrate the value of their vacuum before they sell you on one...



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