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But I like calling people stupid... 
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Yet it's generally not worth the effort.
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Always followed the KISS principle and try avoid the spaghetti soup of acronymic design pattern pattern munching crap that abounds in our business.
If a design isn't simple and sensible, it's probably wrong.
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To be fair, KISS really is an acronym. Ironically TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) isn't, its an Initialism.
(Its my new pedantry campaign, in case you were wondering).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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TL;DR
But I do (of course) have this to say -- code is not a uniform universe with only a few microkelvin degrees of background radiation to differentiate it. I have, for example, some relatively complex code that makes my life way way simpler at higher levels.
So, for example, an asynchronous pub/sub subscriber, or a state machine with transition rules and state events, isn't necessarily simple as a concept nor simple as an implementation. But it lets me write code at the application level that is a lot simpler.
All that "simple" code does is create rapid obsolescence. And it keeps "simple" programmers employed.
(Having perused the article a wee bit now, I agree with the points Sander makes, but not with the general principle of the thing. I prefer Einstein's "Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler"
Marc
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My signature Einstein's KISS variant.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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A better rule: Code Smart!
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Brian Kernighan wrote: Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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Fin feels like a person — actually, it feels like a multiplicity of people It didn't say if "her" is going to support .NET 
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"so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens." 
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Did you notice that this article about an interactive application is signed by someone called 'Kortina', which sound suspiciously like 'Cortana' ?
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Is it pronounced "EFF-in"? As in, "I don't want that EFF-in operating system".
modified 20-Aug-15 11:56am.
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In a December 2014 survey of 2,100 hiring and HR managers, CareerBuilder found 50 percent of hiring managers know enough about a candidate to make a hiring decision within the first five minutes. Wait 15 minutes, and 90 percent of interviewers will have you pegged. Bonus #0: You notice the 'notes' he's taking involve Tetris
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I hate to say it but we can usually tell how an interview is going within 30 seconds.
If you've made it through the front door for an interview chances are the company has already vetted your resume, references and technical skills (or they should have: it's simple enough to do before the interview and saves everyone time).
The interview itself is about whether you want to spend 8hrs a day for the foreseeable future, through thick and thin, with this person.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So, that wasn't Tetris you were playing? 
TTFN - Kent
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Personally I'm a Bejeweled kinda guy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'd rather heard you're a vajazzled kinda guy.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Something tells me that game wouldn't make it through the app store (whichever one) "guidelines".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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This is why, I always place a warm loaf of fresh-baked bread under each armpit before entering a place for an interview.
<SNIFF> I smell like happiness, warmth and a cozy day at home. Hire me!
Hey, it works for selling your house.
Yes, sometimes interviewers do ask about the large bumps under my sweater, but I tell them that is possibly a harrassment issue and then the job is definitely mine.
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