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		hardware2win on Jan 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declinin... Are you serious by trying to call person who wrote that as good or bad just by that short description? Thats crazy, context matters. Sometimes software does complex stuff and no, you cannot infinitely simplify and abstract stuff. Complexity needs to be somewhere

mejutoco on Jan 10, 2023 [–]

complexity can be closer to the top level IMO. I saw codebases where functions are called inside functions for no reason other than it grew organically. Of course, it is not enough information to know it, but it might as well be.

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