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Re: Be afraid... Be VERY Afraid

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
There's nothing wrong with investigating "crazy new designs" from a learning perspective, the reality is just that in real life when you get a job you don't innovate for the sake of innovating, you only do it when existing solutions do not provide the solution to your problem.

Innovative is also not synonymous with good, or indicative of sound engineering. Both are important.
This has everything wrapped up in a nutshell regarding this entire thread.

Also to the original poster of the other quote, these teams aren't doing crazy designs because of their limitations and just the amount of work and effort required to realistically do some of them. Even though the crazy and novel ideas are very cool, they usually aren't the best practical ideas that you would like to go with.
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