When I complained about how ill-defined "simple" was, a lot of people pointed me to Hickey's "simple made easy". Here's a challenge about that: Provide code that is simple but not easy. Then provide code in the same language, doing the same thing, that is easy but not simple.
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When I worked on flash mem (2001), I read the literature on how it worked. At the time, the exact physical mechanism by which some things happened wasn't understood. There were theories, but multiple theories were consistent with what was observed. But we can make flash reliable!
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And to the extent that it's not reliable, we can describe when we expect it to be unreliable and what the odds are. Someone might argue that this is equivalent to "understanding", but that's your point, I think -- the talk is so vague it can mean whatever you want.
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I completely forgot he had a juggling metaphor in the talk
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