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How to *never* complete anything (ewanvalentine.io)
9 points by vegancap on March 7, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Part of this journey involves getting to grips with things like the KISS principle – either through academia or learning the hard way. Keep up the good work, you'll figure it out.

There were countless times where I've seen junior devs approach a problem by thinking up the most complicated and clever solution possible, only to have to rewrite it all later because it just wouldn't work in reality. It's only after these hurdles that one discovers that the cleverness isn't in creating complexity from the get go – it's in keeping things straightforward.


What is this horrible new fad of making web pages not show any real content until you scroll away from the title?


I'm not a front-end dev, I just bought a theme and clicked 'install', I can see why it's annoying though




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