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I had an idea once but when I tried to explain it people didn't understand.

I revisited earlier thought: communication is a 2 man job, one is to not make an effort to understand while the other explains things poorly. It always manages to never work out.

Periodically I thought about the puzzle and was eventually able to explain it such that people thought it was brilliant ~ tho much to complex to execute.

I thought about it some more, years went by and I eventually managed to make it easy to understand. The response: "If it was that simple someone else would have thought of it." I still find it hilarious decades later.

It pops to mind often when I rewrite some code and it goes from almost unreadable to something simple and elegant. Ah, this must be how someone else would have done it!



> Ah, this must be how someone else would have done it!

This is a good exclamation :D

And it's a poignant story. Thanks for sharing.


That’s pretty good. It needs an Athena poster :-)




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