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Re:Microfront ends should be your last resort by gaoshan on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:31PM (#37931923)
>They hired a lot of "smart" developers, but they also took forever to ship anything.

Oh man does this resonate with me. Some of the "smartest" people we've hired have also been the slowest to deliver as they waffle and perfect and theorize and play with the tasks they have.

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Re:Microfront ends should be your last resort by tines on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:35PM (#37931983)
But then their playtime projects may turn into your next big product :)
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Re:Microfront ends should be your last resort by afjeafaj848 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:35PM (#37931985)
That's something I didn't get for a long time

There is a difference between being smart and effective

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Re:Microfront ends should be your last resort by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:29PM (#37933570)
I love the word effective and use it all the time.

It almost immediately gets rid of a lot of idealism.

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Re:Microfront ends should be your last resort by willsmith72 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:56PM (#37932269)
Yep, more and more I think of the engineers I want on my team as "product engineers" over software engineers.

Overengineering is the devil

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Re:Microfront ends should be your last resort by danielvaughn on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:32PM (#37936213)
My go-to line is "I don't like working with geniuses, they're idiots."

Of course I don't actually think that, but there does seem to be a kind of parochial navel-gazing that comes with the high intellect territory, and in tech that manifests itself in absurdly over-engineered solutions.

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