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> double++

I'd suggest to ++double the cost. Compare:

++double: spoken as "triple" -> team says that double++ was a joke, we can obviously only double the cost -> embarrassingly you quickly agree -> team laughs -> team approves doubling -> you double the cost -> team goes out for beers -> everyone is happy

double++: spoken as "double" -> team quickly agrees and signs off -> you consequently triple the cost per c precedence rules -> manager goes ballistic -> you blithely recount the history of c precedence in a long monotone style -> job returns EINVAL -> beers = 0



Lol :)




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