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by cjalmeida 1698 days ago
The problem was throwing the solution at their faces like that. The key to looking stupid is not making others look stupid.

There are ways to create roundabouts so that the solution looks “elegant” but only after “hard thought”.

There’s also the risk that the simple solution has some real limitation (eg. some regulatory issue) then you’ll will indeed look stupid