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It's hard to explain to junior engineers why chasing fads is a bad idea. Why boring technology is often the best choice. That's only something that most people figure out with experience.
Seniors often don’t like doing new things for the simple reason that they already know how to do things a different way and they don’t feel like learning something new.
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A comma separates clauses that make grammatical sense on their own, or at least where one of them does. So "In Greece, we have a similar phrase" is fine, because "we have a similar phrase" is complete in itself. Whereas "Readable code, is a piece of code" is not correct, because "is a piece of code" is not complete - it's missing a subject. Likewise, "In Germany, they say" and "In 16th century, in the Habsburgermonar…
I am Greek and we don't use that many commas. Definitely not in this way. I think the Greek language is also not as flexible with comma placement as perhaps English is. What I've noticed is that some people never learned how to use them. They just write a sentence (or a whole essay) and generously sprinkle some commas afterwards, normally wherever they would make a short pause. I've seen this with colleagues from Ger…
Anyway, other than the last two examples, the examples above don't look wrong to me.