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alphageryesterday at 1:32 AM1 replyview on HN

I've seen this happen with both juniors and seniors. They do come back with a working solution /for the happy path/. Because the happy path is easy. It turns out that most of the complexity sits in the unhappy paths.


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groundzeros2015yesterday at 2:17 AM

I still don’t agree. The trick to good design is getting more things on the happy path. Most of the software I use is small and constructed in this manner.

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