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Re:IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Interne... by cle on Monday July 11, 2022 @12:23PM (#32058205)
Simplicity is something lost in society. Most software complexity stems from that IMO.
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Re:IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Interne... by api on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:16PM (#32060469)
That may be a factor, but I think a lot of it just comes from the tendency of sophomore engineers to want to use all the things in as many ways as possible.

https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html

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Re:IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Interne... by mwcampbell on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:23PM (#32062080)
I saw a version of that joke on a BBS in the 90s. I definitely remember the manager progression at the end. But the 90s version I saw also had a very over-engineered Windows version. I wish I remembered more about it than that.
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