<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>reeses</author><text>&quot;I discovered that you&apos;d never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This&lt;/i&gt; is one of my Jedi-level secrets of technical management.&lt;p&gt;I am quick to say I have a huge ego, because anyone who knew me would fight to say it first.  The fact that I know what I know and have a good feel for where I&apos;m weak lends me confidence in those situations where I&apos;m mostly out of my depth.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve managed ultra-introverted developers for about makesmesoundold years.  Numerous are the times I&apos;ve asked a question and gotten no answer.  &quot;How would we go about accomplishing x?&quot; &quot;How long would it take us to do y?&quot; &quot;What letter comes after z?&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Crickets&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Throw a proposal just plausible enough that people think you&apos;re serious, but so &quot;insane&quot; that it almost defies logic (&quot;what if we put, say, hmm...log base two of 2097152 is 21...jQuery callbacks in an HTML file full of id&apos;d divs...&quot;), then it&apos;s as if a tiny rock starts rolling down a hill.  First one person offers a criticism, and then we get more people engaged, throwing out the alternatives that they would have suggested in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Eventually, they recognize the game, and then it&apos;s a fun brainstorming activity.  Or you fire three as a message to the others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lelandbatey</author><text>I love this. The code may not have been beautiful, but it worked, and the author figured it out themselves!&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m simultaneously reminded of two different quotes:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Let&apos;s argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape.&lt;/i&gt;
--@agentdero [0]&lt;p&gt;And the other:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#60;dm&amp;#62; I discovered that you&apos;d never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;-- Bash.org [1]&lt;p&gt;You should always try to do SOMETHING over being frozen in indecision. Additionally, we really should do a better job of explaining things to people, so they don&apos;t have to stoop to trolling for answers :)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://bash.org/?152037&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bash.org/?152037&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>21 Nested Callbacks</title><url>http://blog.michellebu.com/2013/03/21-nested-callbacks/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prawn</author><text>The Linux Guru line reminds me of a technique I used to get quick Mac OS help many, many years ago. Emailing a friend for that sort of help often left me with a long wait, so I&apos;d email two rabid Mac people in the same email, let them see that both had been included, and then watch as they fought over themselves to quickly show how the Mac solution was so fast and easy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lelandbatey</author><text>I love this. The code may not have been beautiful, but it worked, and the author figured it out themselves!&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m simultaneously reminded of two different quotes:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Let&apos;s argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape.&lt;/i&gt;
--@agentdero [0]&lt;p&gt;And the other:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#60;dm&amp;#62; I discovered that you&apos;d never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;-- Bash.org [1]&lt;p&gt;You should always try to do SOMETHING over being frozen in indecision. Additionally, we really should do a better job of explaining things to people, so they don&apos;t have to stoop to trolling for answers :)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://bash.org/?152037&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bash.org/?152037&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>21 Nested Callbacks</title><url>http://blog.michellebu.com/2013/03/21-nested-callbacks/</url></story>