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lachyg on Feb 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: AOL buys Huffington Post for $315mm in cash

This is the exact same argument that is used for people in-favor of 'SPEC' work. Which gets down voted to nothing on HackerNews, yet this and its parent are getting upvoted.

Interesting.

wmeredith on Feb 7, 2011 [–]

It's all about context:

If someone asks me for spec work I tell them no, if I ask someone to do spec work for them to raise my profile I'm hoping they don't tell me no.

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