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by empath75 2448 days ago
> I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

— General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

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We ran the Clausewitz vs Sun Tzu A/B test and we know how it went. "War is merely the continuation of politics by other means"
For extra mischief points, you get to map these four groups to the four groups of developers listed above :)
{

:Wise => Architect that actually writes code

:Brave => The guy who refactor old code

:Covetous => Project manager

:Stupid => Count as -1 head because it take half an engineers time to help him and another half to refactor any code he's written.

}