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by phantarch 3387 days ago
I'll echo that sentiment, I experience it daily. Very rarely is a business itself abstract and complicated enough to merit an abstract and complicated technical solution. Meatspace is still pretty simple.
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There's often a non-complicated solution to a difficult problem but spotting it takes some skill and experience and sometimes takes longer to implement than a more obvious complicated solution.
And sometimes complicated problems can really be solved only by a complicated solution, but can be half-assed in a simple way. You pay for the partial solution much later.

It is good to avoid future discounting in this way.