Bo102010 comments on Things You Can't Countersignal - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Alicorn 19 February 2010 12:18AM

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Comment author: Cyan 22 February 2010 09:31:33PM *  3 points [-]

I do that because I'm terrible at layout and color schemes, so I KISS.

Comment author: Bo102010 22 February 2010 10:50:04PM 4 points [-]

One trivial thing that bugs me when people bring up the "KISS principle" is that they invariably say it like: "So just apply the KISS principle... you know... Keep It Simple, Stupid." Seriously, who hasn't heard of that by now?

I rolled my eyes a bit when you posted a link with it, but have to take it back now - I didn't know the original phrase was "keep it simple and stupid." So, in this case, explaining the acronym was actually useful!

Comment author: thomblake 25 February 2010 04:20:18PM 0 points [-]

"Keep it short and simple" is a pretty common reading.