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I'm glad to see the hacker news community shitting on this. I deal with far too many developers like the OP on a daily basis, sometimes their crappy over-engineered ideas come to fruition and we end up paying millions to maintain it

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As a bit of a pushback to this - doing the opposite and not considering optimizations and edge cases is perhaps a major source of so many YC startups (and any startups out there that need tech in general) fail when they reach any sort of critical mass - simple is always good, if it actually works at scale.

Facebook's now infamous implosion a few days ago harkens to this - their system is clearly NOT simple, but it works extremely well 99.9% of the time.

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