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1070 points dondraper36 | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.417s | source
1. bifftastic ◴[] No.45068955[source]
See also https://wiki.c2.com/?DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork
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2. kristianp ◴[] No.45069347[source]
> when I asked [KentBeck], "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?" I wasn't even sure. I wasn't asking, "What do you know would work?" I was asking, "What's possible? What is the simplest thing we could say in code, so that we'll be talking about something that's on the screen, instead of something that's ill-formed in our mind?" I was saying, "Once we get something on the screen, we can look at it. If it needs to be more, we can make it more.