- Keep it simple, stupid. Advanced is not a compliment. - Languages and frameworks don't matter. There's a closed set of concepts they're all reusing. Especial

- Keep it simple, stupid. Advanced is not a compliment. - Languages and frameworks don't matter. There's a closed set of concepts they're all reusing. Especially if it's hot shit: that means someone mined ideas from 30 years ago. - Most problems tend to fall not to cleverness, but to compute power and the right glue. See previous two points. - Everything is a tradeoff, everything is a moving target. Programming is about the battles you choose.