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by userbinator 1655 days ago
Not getting lost in the complexities of our own making and preferably reaching that goal by learning how to avoid the introduction of those complexities in the first place, that is the key challenge computing science has to meet.

Nowadays machines are so fast and stores are so huge that in a very true sense the computations we can evoke defy our imagination. Machine capacities now give us room galore for making a mess of it

If only Dijkstra was around today... those thoughts were extremely prescient. I've seen far more overly complex and abstracted code than "too simple" code.

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electron enters the chat.

Though seriously it's mind blowing how convoluted modern desktop applications have sometimes become. Would be nice to have more KISS applications instead of fancy monstrosities for our daily usage.