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Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design
Episode Highlights [00:00:48] What Makes Software Maintainable Don explains why unnecessary complexity is the biggest barrier to maintainability, drawing on themes from A Philosophy of Software Design . [00:03:14] The Co...
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