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Sep 19, 2014 at 20:41
"an unavoidable tradeoff between feature-richness and usability" great Yegge article that I hadn't seen before:
steve yegge - nonesuch-beast
The Nonesuch Beast Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ I keep running into the same problem. This problem, or maybe it's a class of problems, is hard to talk about because of its inherent complexity. But not being able to articulate the problem well hasn't actually deterred it from coming to bite me

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