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I have a slightly different view and I think expressing it in front of the right people may have gotten me a job. Programmers ought to be clever, but clever is something you hold in reserve. Choose the boring, the staid, the obvious. Clever is for when you're backed into a corner by odd requirements, edge cases that the obvious will not cover, and so on. Then, you comment your clever, journalism-style. Why were you clever? Where is the clever? Just how did you do it? When do you apply this? And so on.