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Comment by DoreenMichele

6 years ago

"At first glance with what little I know about the project, my first thought would be sshd. Please fill me in on the background here so I have more context and can better understand the problem space and chain of logic."

Yes! I’ve looked through these responses exasperated. This is the only one that I agree with. The people who say “why didn’t you just” often have a very limited understanding of the new thing, and naively reduce it to a problem they do understand.

  • To me, both responses are the same.

    Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" comes to mind. You're saying exactly the same thing but in a bureaucratic form.

    Reading other posts here the message I get is that a lot of people work in dysfunctional environments in which everyone's at each other's throat or something.

    My default assumption would be that obviously my colleague isn't being an asshole...

    • The majority of times people have said “why don’t you just...” to me the answer is that if they understood what $thing was trying to do they wouldn’t have asked the question. They’re not being “assholes” they’re just headed toward it from a wrong assumption (they’re assumption is that they understand what $thing does, but they don’t.) so my advice to anyone suggesting just do $x is that they need to try to understand what they don’t understand about $thing, don’t even worry about $x.

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