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		gopher_space 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force My cleverest one-liners will block me when I come back to them unless I write a few paragraphs of explanation as well.

ethbr1 11 months ago [–]

>> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian Kernighan

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#kernighans-law

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