alt Hacker News> holding up that Fog Creek/Trello/SquareSpace story as a positive always drives me somewhat nuts. It lionizes a failure.
Firefighters are heroes who bravely enter burning buildings, beloved by children and adults alike, muscular figures who get pictured on sexy calendars and thanked by tearful families.
Officious paper-pushers who make a fuss about a few cardboard boxes stored under the fire escape stairs (like me!) seldom get pictured on sexy calendars.
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watwut • today at 11:25 AM
Large part of firefighters jobs is preventative - inspections and such.
There's an element of risk involved, isn't there?
A firefighter entering a burning building is literally risking his or her life at that moment. A paper pusher who works on preventing the fire in the first place is normally very far from danger.