Re:Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013)
by whipoodle on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:01PM
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I think people like the sound of the ideas he's espousing in "Simple made easy", but toward he has some pretty specific examples of complexity that are often ignored. Like, I've worked with people who would fervently recommend the talk, but still love for-loops.
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Re:Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013)
by endlessvoid94 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:32PM
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Pesky human behavior!
I suppose. But if you're talking about keeping things simple and not complecting them, but then you go around doing just that... what are you really talking about, you know?
Re:Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013)
by always_good on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:04PM
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Well, for-loops also aren't really the complexity that matters in a large app. I'd rather someone write for-loops yet aim for higher level simplicity.
Maybe you're overscrutinizing the trees.
Aaaaaa I'm not specifically talking about for-loops
perhaps you've 'complected' this thread. :)
I meditate. My goal is to be more at ease with my thoughts. I still get anxious and confused, but that doesn't make the effort any less worthwhile. Same thing with simplicity: it's a habit that you build into your work by degrees over time. We'll always come up short and have our blind spots, but that doesn't invalidate the worth of the effort.