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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by cageface on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:38PM (#16410587)
Simplicity is the silver bullet. The longer I work as a developer the more value I see in it. The single biggest mistake I see good but inexperienced developers make is building overly complex & unnecessarily abstracted solutions.
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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by jimbokun on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:55PM (#16410648)
Exactly, and to elaborate on your point, take a problem that seems complex and difficult to break down, and find the simple pieces that can be tied together to solve the complex problem.

To me, that's programming in a nutshell. Or at least what it should be.

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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by warrenm on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:19PM (#16467568)
That's problem solving in a nutshell :)
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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by tehlike on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:10PM (#16410696)
Not overengineering is an art.
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Re:State of the 10x Programmer in 2018 by catnaroek on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:08AM (#16429507)
How do you measure simplicity?
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