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le-marktoday at 3:50 PM1 replyview on HN

> fought against X adoption because it was "too complex", only to slowly reinvent X badly

This is a surprisingly common pattern in technology and software. Some things are definitively the “standard” at this point yet so many people simply refuse to spend the time to properly learn them.


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ipsento606today at 4:35 PM

> This is a surprisingly common pattern in technology and software. Some things are definitively the “standard”

It is also a surprisingly common pattern to adopt very complicated solutions for applications that are never going to need them

ultimately it is not possible to come up with a "standard" that is an acceptable replacement for good judgement