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> It will piss off people who wish work was an objective technical meritocracy where the best coders immediately rise to the top and are in charge. Also worth
by reitanqild 9y ago
> It will piss off people who wish work was an objective technical meritocracy where the best coders immediately rise to the top and are in charge.
Also worth pointing out: Sometimes (often) the people who are most vocal about this are not the best coders :-)
- hinkley 9y agoAlso worth pointing out: the people most comfortable with complexity often “rise to the top”, and they are not your best coders either.
- halfnibble 9y agoWhoah, there. Some people are extremely comfortable with complexity and yet are still zealous about simplicity and elegance.
- preordained 9y agoHaha. Some. That's the joke. Would that "some" were there much earlier in the product I work on...