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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why should I want simplicity? I want to make unnecessarily complex programs to gatekeep those pesky junior programmers.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's how you get that job security...

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago

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[–] fascicle@leminal.space 4 points 21 hours ago

I think what they meant is that making it complex gets you job security