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Re:Worse Is Better (2001) by mjw1007 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:08AM (#27949690)
I think it's more than avoiding feature creep.

I think the most interesting parts are

« It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. » and « completeness must be sacrificed whenever implementation simplicity is jeopardized ».

I think of this every time I'm annoyed that I can't add an empty directory to a git repository.

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