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Mond_today at 9:20 PM1 replyview on HN

I used Manjaro for a few years.

That's how I learned a pretty important lesson about software engineering that still informs how I work to this day.

"A layer of abstraction on top of a stateful legacy system often doesn't result in a simpler system, it just introduces exciting new failure possibilities. This especially applies when the owners of the legacy system have no responsibility over the abstraction layer."


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peeterstoday at 9:25 PM

This comment made a lot more sense to me once I realized we weren't talking about an aggressively marketed weight loss drug.

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