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Q: Is wanting to succeed considered a bad thing?


If we are talking NHL level exceptations at my dayjob, ye, it is a bad thing.

Especially as there are no way of rating programmers as fairly as sportsmen.


> Especially as there are no way of rating programmers as fairly as sportsmen.

Oh boy, I guess you don’t follow sports too closely. There is endless debate about rankings and player value and statistics.

But I am digressing.


> If we are talking NHL level exceptations at my dayjob, ye, it is a bad thing

I would love to work in an extremely competitive environment where slackers are punished.




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