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		tomjen3 on March 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit... In hiring a false negative means your competition gets a better programmer which means they will be able to eat your lunch. How isn't that a disaster?

mooism2 on March 31, 2011 [–]

Maybe.

If a false negative means you have no awesome candidates to choose from, that's a problem.

If a false negative means you have two awesome candidates to choose from instead of three, that's irritating but hardly a disaster.

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