{"id":12858,"date":"2010-07-28T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12858"},"modified":"2010-07-28T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:19:09","slug":"on-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/28\/on-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"On complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes I find wisdom in the most unexpected places. \u00a0Not that Matt’s blog<\/a> is such a place, but I wasn’t expecting to find anything that\u00a0enlightening\u00a0in the comments to such a simplistic blog post – about centered backgrounds for Twitter<\/a>. \u00a0The quote that I think more people should know is:<\/p>\n

it\u2019s hard to anticipate the complexity of something you didn\u2019t write<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a beautiful screenshot for too.<\/p>\n

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A few times I found myself in the situation that I couldn’t even explain the complexity of a change that seemed so simple from the outside. \u00a0And for some time now, when I hear the question “Why can’t they just do it? It’s so simple”, I have the answer ready – “They probably have more than one good reason for not doing it”.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes I find wisdom in the most unexpected places. \u00a0Not that Matt’s blog is such a place, but I wasn’t expecting to find anything that\u00a0enlightening\u00a0in the comments to such a simplistic blog post – about centered backgrounds for Twitter. \u00a0The quote that I think more people should know is: it\u2019s hard to anticipate the complexity … Continue reading On complexity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[1111,1173],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-twitter","tag-web-architecture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9947,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/03\/python-here-i-come\/","url_meta":{"origin":12858,"position":0},"title":"Python! 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