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joe_the_user on July 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing code that works on first go

I'd say the devil is in the "aggressively minimize codebase complexity" detail

If you can give reproducible instructions about how to do that, I'd say to hear them.

dustingetz on July 10, 2011 [–]

agreed, but that's the point: "use 1==foo and keep methods small" is totally missing the point.

I'm not sure I can state it more clearly than "understand accidental complexity, aggressively reduce it".

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