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Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by adverbly on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @08:56AM (#38708705)
True. On the other hand, the reason things are not simple is probably that your requirements are dumb.

https://youtu.be/hhuaVsOAMFc?t=12

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Re:Advice for new software devs who've read all those other ... by andai on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @12:36PM (#38711251)
>The reason "simplify" is not the first step, is that it's possibly the most common mistake of a smart engineer to optimize something that should not exist.
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