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Clever ideas that failed (2010)
The cleverness of an idea is proportionate to its odds of failure. Brian Kernighan once said that “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.” I have built many things that I wasn’t…
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Tech Industry & BusinessLife, Learning & Writing2017
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 2017 | Clever ideas that failed (2010) by walrus | 159 | 24 |
