Comment by kstenerud
6 years ago
Really? I've never considered it patronising.
"Have you tried x?"
"Yes, that's the first thing I tried."
"Hmm, how about y?"
"That too."
"Well that has me beat. Unless maybe you tried something crazy like z..."
"Actually, with a slight modification that might just work well enough for this!"
This is a discussion between 2 more or less equally clever persons. The problem is when 1 person is clever and the other is not (and you probably don’t know yet).