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Humans are political animals. That's why most technical criticisms are basically just reflections of personal problems rather than anything truly rational.

For example, someone who keeps coming up with reasons your tool won't work for a particular application, when the real reason is that it makes their previous tool less important or replaces it.

I have a client who has a 'trusted partner' (programmer) who does not have the skills or time for the scope of the current project. Yesterday he was telling the client my new tool doesn't work and that there was only three weeks left, so I needed to create a new hook to bypass the tool entirely and run a script on my server that he writes. The problem is that was nonsense, so I demonstrated the whole thing working last night. They require my API so they need to use my tool which configures the API (the API has always been a way to trigger the tool with certain inputs). We discussed this long before.

But basically the guy has done nothing but say that my tools or approaches won't work, because they are supplanting his own.

But everything comes down to political BS in this world. That's the main thing holding back technology. Idiotic primate manipulations.




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