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Re:Ask HN: How to challenge trends without appearing like a ... by mmt on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @03:07AM (#17547888)
> "I thought this was great but maybe engineer X was on to something when he said Y could be an issue"

...said no trend-follower, ever.

Less flippantly, I do believe this might have been the case when the average tenure of engineers was much longer than today's 2ish years, but too often, by the time the idea does fail, enough people (even engineer X) are likely to be at different companies.

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Re:Ask HN: How to challenge trends without appearing like a ... by thermodynthrway on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:11PM (#17554632)
Very true. Although I have had people come back and say I was right. Not the trend follower, but those that blindly trusted them (usually most of the engineering team)
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