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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I completely forgot he had a juggling metaphor in the talk
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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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An example I particularly like: we're still not fully certain on why bicycles don't fall down. https://idisk-srv1.mpi-cbg.de/~diez/test.pdf
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