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Re:How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You by pnutjam on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:20PM (#19227064)
In many offices, mere competency makes you the default expert.
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Re:How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You by mgkimsal on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:26AM (#19246254)
Sure. Was just pushing back on the "don't settle for jack-of-all-trades - become the expert". Well... that's a never-ending goal. Perhaps I want to be an expert jack-of-all-trades?

I can't be the expert in all things, or even most things I want to be. There's simply not enough time - people with 10 years of experience on me will always be 10 years ahead - and usually that means there's more 'expert' than me on XYZ (not always, time != expertise exactly, but it's often an signal).

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