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Comment on Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?

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- before ML try linear or polynomial regression

- buying a bigger server is almost always better than distributed system

- Few lines of bash can often wipe out hundreds of lines of python.

Few lines of bash...

Windows admin in the room -- you'd be amazed what can batch together from DOS batch. I provision APC UPS monitoring cards with a sub-15 line script to bring them into our management.

PowerShell? Hardly knew 'er.

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