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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by grepthisab on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:59AM (#20614255)
> What they don't see is that the engineer tossing the ball figured out that the solution they were about to spend 2 weeks coding can be achieved by leveraging an existing library requiring only a couple days effort.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but that wouldn't mean that the engineer shouldn't implement in a couple days and then work on something else. HN loves the trope of the super smart engineer who is smarter than _everyone_ and can look like they're doing nothing.

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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by NoodleIncident on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:57PM (#20615741)
You don't have to be a "super smart engineer" for that situation to occur. It's completely normal for software features to shrink (or grow) by that much time in my experience.
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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by logicchains on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:15AM (#20614382)
The engineer probably isn't going to get paid any more for finishing it faster, so what incentive do they have?
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