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Ask HN: How Not to Talk to a Programmer?

2 pointsby matijashabout 5 years ago
Share your best stories/anecdotes.

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matijashabout 5 years ago
Once a &quot;business&quot; person contacted me under a pretence he was interested into an open-source devtool project I am working on.<p>It turned out to be false, as he was only interested into hiring me for his new startup idea - for which he spent 30 minutes explaining it to me first.<p>At the end he tried to convince me to abandon my project because no dev would use it (although he has no knowledge of the topic).