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jasonlotito
on Sept 13, 2022
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Senior engineers are living in the future
Except that's not at all what the article is suggesting. Quite the opposite.
Invictus0
on Sept 13, 2022
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> it is
literally effortless
to accidentally cultivate the impression of being some kind of wizard
atomicnumber3
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My impression of that bit was that the author was saying it may look like a senior engineer is a wizard, but actually it's just experience and it's not magic.
zb
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Exactly, but also that it's quite often experience you had
this morning
, not e.g. over the last 5 years, that makes the difference.
wiseowise
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olddustytrail
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A quote which shows you were wrong and the person you were responding to was right. You do know what is meant by "impression" in that sentence?
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