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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by xandrius on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @05:15AM (#40572323)
I don't see the problem here: the original dev delivers quickly, the next dev gets to solve an interesting problems and gets to show off how much time they saved.
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by tracker1 on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @08:59PM (#40580411)
They could have used any hashmap or dictionary in the first place... The DB solution was far more complicated.
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by gcarvalho on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:02PM (#40580730)
Delivering the over-complicated feature and improving the performance of the over-complicated feature both seem to get more praise than shipping the simple version to begin with.
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by beeboobaa3 on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @07:57AM (#40583827)
Who cares? Do you do your job for head pats or to actually get shit done?
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by gcarvalho on Thursday June 06, 2024 @06:35AM (#40595803)
To make a living. Being acknowledged is good to keep at it, or so I heard.
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