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		chc on May 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You should feel guilty for over-sleeping; or, my g... I don't think so. It's a rant about people who don't want to do hard things. Go reread — the overall thrust is not "keep your promises," but rather "do hard things and don't complain about them." He says this pretty explicitly several times.

michaelochurch on May 7, 2013 [–]

Sometimes people should complain when they have to do hard things.

Alan: My arbitrary function equality checker is taking a goddamn long time to write.

Barbara: That's because it's mathematically impossible.

Alan: Oh, thanks. I guess I won't put that feature in, then.

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