It&#x27;s unfortunate that, in science, if it isn&#x27;t written down, it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>Having been bitten by the &#x27;but we already know how to do that&#x27; comments, I find this particular aspect of industry to be very irritating. There are 3 possibilities:<p>The unpublished solution is brilliant.<p>The solution fits for very limited constraints applicable only to that situation.<p>The solution is a half-assed hack that only looks like it works.<p>In only one of those situations is the &#x27;naive&#x27; comment valid.