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A while back I was doing some coding at work, and found out that the solution for a particular problem was really stupid. Like deleting all the files and copying them back into the project kind of stupid. It fixed the problem, but only after I'd tried everything else, wasting about a day and a half of work by trying to fix something retarded with elegant code. The good news is that it helped me come up with this axiom of programming:

If a problem is exceedingly clever, then an equally clever solution is often required. But when the problem is dumb, then the solution must be equally dumb.

I call it the Dumb Rule of Programming.

-s