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There was an article here a few days ago about"incompetent altruism" or something like that. The commonality is whether you're laser focused on solving the prob

There was an article here a few days ago about"incompetent altruism" or something like that. The commonality is whether you're laser focused on solving the problem, versus being obsessed with yourself as the solver. The bit about us not being smart enough for some of the technologies also rings really true. Thinking of a coworker who was "smart" enough to reach for threads right away, and then inevitably spent the next 2 years of any project dealing with thread issues in production.

wpietri 6y ago
Exactly. Over the years I've learned to keep my self-indulgence to my hobby projects. When I'm coding for money, I try very hard to set aside my ego and do the best thing for the users. As much as I am personally motivated by novelty and curiosity, when I'm on the clock I'm a lifetime member of the Boring Technology Club: http://boringtechnology.club/ http://boringtechnology.club/
carapace 6y ago
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan