Things Great Engineers (Almost) Never Say

Re:Things Great Engineers (Almost) Never Say by fecak on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @09:55AM (#4636309)

Author here. That is a very interesting point. My point was that great engineers will know which tool is optimal yet will be able to identify a new solution. I could certainly see situations where perhaps an ego causes someone to always think he/she can build a tool better than the ones that already exist and function fine. It's over-engineering.

Excellent point.

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Re:Things Great Engineers (Almost) Never Say by mgkimsal on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @10:06AM (#4636358)

Sometimes ego, sometimes just lack of experience. In my case, initially it was primarily lack of experience, then I went through the ego stage, and now I do what I can to use pre-existing stuff, and I've done this long enough where I know there's likely options I need to research/explore before making a decision.

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