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		adverbly on Dec 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advice for new software devs who've read all those... True. On the other hand, the reason things are not simple is probably that your requirements are dumb. https://youtu.be/hhuaVsOAMFc?t=12

andai on Dec 20, 2023 [–]

>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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