Re:Be likeable or get fired
by notacoward on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:55PM
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> This is a symptom of an entrenched workforce and quite a red flag.
No, it's a sign that many domains are full of hidden constraints and pitfalls. For example, it's easy to nit-pick a distributed storage system (such as the author seemed to be working with) as too slow and complex, until you actually learn about the consistency/recovery/etc. corner cases that make a simplistic "just do this" proposals non-viable. You could say that's a failure to document the requirements or design. You could also say that people shouldn't need to document things that are considered baseline knowledge in their domain, and that maybe you do need to show some understanding of the complexity before you seek to do away with it (cf. Chesterton's Fence).
No, it's a sign that many domains are full of hidden constraints and pitfalls. For example, it's easy to nit-pick a distributed storage system (such as the author seemed to be working with) as too slow and complex, until you actually learn about the consistency/recovery/etc. corner cases that make a simplistic "just do this" proposals non-viable. You could say that's a failure to document the requirements or design. You could also say that people shouldn't need to document things that are considered baseline knowledge in their domain, and that maybe you do need to show some understanding of the complexity before you seek to do away with it (cf. Chesterton's Fence).