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Re:Be likeable or get fired by reitanqild on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:30AM (#16885030)
> 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 :-)

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Re:Be likeable or get fired by hinkley on Friday April 20, 2018 @12:04PM (#16885910)
Also worth pointing out: the people most comfortable with complexity often “rise to the top”, and they are not your best coders either.
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Re:Be likeable or get fired by halfnibble on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:56PM (#16888986)
Whoah, there. Some people are extremely comfortable with complexity and yet are still zealous about simplicity and elegance.
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Re:Be likeable or get fired by preordained on Friday April 20, 2018 @08:20PM (#16889297)
Haha. Some. That's the joke. Would that "some" were there much earlier in the product I work on...
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