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infamouscow • yesterday at 11:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Many of us insist upon not building Rube Goldberg machines that cannot be reasoned about precisely for this reason.

Most of the time we get demonized by resume-driven developers job-hopping every few years (seems like the lack of deep expertise is working out). Today we get to laugh at their expense. These problems were entirely foreseeable and avoidable.


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Den_VR • yesterday at 11:30 PM

> building Rube Goldberg machines that cannot be reasoned about

What a great phrase!, can I use that in conversation?