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epochwolf on July 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News

My reason for down voting is it came across as mocking Peroni. I certainly understood it was sarcasm but I did not think it was funny.

Edit: well, Peroni found it funny (didn't see his post when I replied.)

jsavimbi on July 12, 2011 [–]

> No good deed goes unpunished.

I never understood that to be a form of mockery, more of sympathy. So I looked it up and yes, I was apparently, and unintentionally, mocking Peroni. My apologies.

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