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OK. Let's say that's completely true.

Is snarkily telling someone they're not good enough helpful?

Seems like a moment where you could share what you know (as someone, presumably, has been in the industry long enough) and help someone.

(FWIW it sounds like a decent question to me: but then again undoubtedly I have not been in the industry long enough!)



I wasn’t meaning that at all. I meant that if you have to ask why people solve problems with over complicated solutions, you haven’t been doing this very long.

The answer is: it’s in our nature to make simple things difficult.

It shows more maturity if you just accept people do stupid things without trying to pry a rationale out of them IMO.


That is a reasonable opinion to have for sure, I think it just wasn't too obvious what you meant unfortunately!




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