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		sesm 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cognitive load is what matters > make things so simple+dumb that the cognitive load when maintaining all that code is minimized. That's not very smart in BigCo, instead you want the complexity to leak into adjacent systems and make them depend on you.

tugu77 7 months ago [–]

I know your comment is a little tongue-in-cheek, but that kind of thinking is in fact widespread and a reason why many of us are so miserable.

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