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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: trivial</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/trivial.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-07-17T10:24:09+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Understanding Engineers: Feasibility</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/17/fishbowl/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-17T10:24:09+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T10:24:09+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/17/fishbowl/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2007/07/17/understanding_engineers_feasibility"&gt;Understanding Engineers: Feasibility&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Charles Miller provides smart definitions of what programmers mean when they say “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/charles-miller"&gt;charles-miller&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hard"&gt;hard&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/language"&gt;language&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nontrivial"&gt;nontrivial&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programmers"&gt;programmers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming"&gt;programming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/trivial"&gt;trivial&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unfeasible"&gt;unfeasible&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/veryhard"&gt;veryhard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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