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zozbot234 on Nov 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)

It's not about being pretty, it's about understanding when you're incurring lots of technical debt that's going to bite you in the ass down the road. There's nothing wrong with implementing a complex system in the likes of Max/MSP necessarily but it should be a reasoned decision, not something you do reflexively because you just don't know any better.

justin_oaks on Nov 7, 2021 [–]

Indeed. I had a boss who didn't "know any better" about a lot of things, so he often could only think of one solution to any problem.

My thought when people only have one solution to a problem: If you can only think of one solution, how do you know it's not the worst one?

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