Daily Dose of Curious

Put the complexity underneath and keep the useful bit on top.

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Plenty of systems are complicated because the job is. Far more are complicated because of how the information is laid out. An engineer should not need to understand a database to find a part; the system should do that work and hand back a plain answer.

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