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Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet compan... by falsedan on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:00AM (#20992744)
Because real engineers enjoy making hard things boring.

edit: to be clear, I'm not claiming to be a 'real' engineer. I love writing whimsical, complicated stuff if it makes things easier for users, and make sure I'm writing maintainable code my colleagues are comfortable with with code reviews and removing as many flourishes as possible.

Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet compan... by arethuza on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:17AM (#20992858)
I'm sure I read a definition of engineering once that was basically "meet the requirements doing as little new as possible".