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codr7last Sunday at 3:02 PM0 repliesview on HN

Couldn't agree more!

You develop a sense for when the time is right over the years, by maintaining over engineered pieces of shit, many written by yourself.

To beginners it seems like coming up with the idea and building it is the difficult part; it isn't, not even close. The only difficult parts worth mentioning is keeping complexity on a tight leash and maintaining conceptual integrity.