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"However, these existing solutions did not provide an adequate way for an engineer to get promoted. Thus, we decided building our own was necessary."


"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Seems like a fairly benign humorous comment to me.


What existing solutions solve their particular needs ?

And don't forget that rolling out commercial products in an enterprise is often expensive and time consuming e.g. involving legal, procurement, architecture etc.


You aren't wrong, but that's how 99.9% of innovation happens. And every now and then something useful comes of it.




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