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Programming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.

Drawn from what David Crawshaw said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

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What David Crawshaw actually said

  1. David Crawshaw Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale
    Programming is the art of tradeoffs. You have to decide what matters and what does not.

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