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Re:Curse of knowledge by barrkel on Sunday April 23, 2017 @08:55AM (#14177970)
Perhaps between 0 experience and a junior programmer, but not a senior programmer; you need a lot of experience with different designs to gauge how to model and approach different problems appropriately. There are many working solutions to problems, but the space narrows drastically when you consider what's appropriate to abstract and what isn't, what can be maintained easily and what can't, what can be tested easily, what can be explained easily, etc.
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Re:Curse of knowledge by logicallee on Sunday April 23, 2017 @11:06AM (#14178435)
But that experience, isn't exactly information. You can't really learn it in a book... My comment was about passing on the required information -- and how much of it there is (little) and how well it's hidden (very well, in a pile of things that will waste anyone's time.)

your sibling comment (by andromeda__) gives a good example.

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