[jeremya]

I think this article may be guilty of overstatement. It's an ever more common sin, as overstatement seems have become a preferred method for communicating thoughts and ideas (and products, though that's nothing new).

Is there a need to overstate to cut through the noise and get your point across or your message heard? Maybe, but it seems unfortunate that when people have some truth or wisdom to share, there is a felt need to amplify and polarize it.

This article has good things to say about the importance of simplicity in code and implementation. I'm fine with value judgements as long as they convincingly define the values they are judging and show evidence that the facts have been thoroughly weighed. 'Correctness' is an ill-defined villain here and the article would do better to state the benefits of simplicity and experiences the author has had with systems designed without simplicity as a first-order goal.

Then again, perhaps I ask too much. Also, I've never had an article on the front page of Hacker News, so what do I know.