alt Hacker NewsWhat if they don't, in fact, have more experience than me?
Edit: this is why tech people are insufferable socially. In any other walk of life assuming you know more than someone is a manifestly obvious faux pas.
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otterley • today at 3:13 PM
This is a hypothetical, not an assumption. I’m interested in your response to the hypothetical.
As a side note, experience isn’t a unidimensional value that is directly comparable. You can have more experience than someone else in one dimension, and the other person can have more experience than you in a different dimension. I’d never argue with my mother about how to perform a blood draw.
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Then solve the problem yourself? Why are you asking someone who knows less than you?
We need a word for the inverse of being XY'd for when someone asks an XY question but is too proud to accept there's a better alternative to X