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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 pointing out: Sometimes (often) the people who are most vocal about this are not the best coders :-)



Also worth pointing out: the people most comfortable with complexity often “rise to the top”, and they are not your best coders either.


Whoah, there. Some people are extremely comfortable with complexity and yet are still zealous about simplicity and elegance.


Haha. Some. That's the joke. Would that "some" were there much earlier in the product I work on...




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