The hotel bathroom puzzle

Re:The hotel bathroom puzzle by raverbashing on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:17AM (#17534611)

> Have today's engineers somehow stopped believing that the simpler thing is the most useful?

See how much crap do you have to install before using some modern js framework

For some others, you need to use an Arduino to make a led blink

Or maybe the true engineers are solving other problems.

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Re:The hotel bathroom puzzle by raverbashing on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:01AM (#17535065)

I think a clarification is merited even if I think your comment is a bit low effort

Engineering involved, for most of its history, balancing cost (design and production and TCO) x effort x reliability

What people see today as an "planned obsolescence" (which does happen in some cases) is one facet of that balance. Yes you can make an incandescent bulb that lasts 1Mi hours. But it will cost more and probably consume 200W instead of 50W for the same luminosity.

Using React is not an engineering mistake. Using React for a page that has only a "Coming Soon" text and a picture probably is. And the mess of dependencies and tools that you need to use React/npm is probably not justifiable, especially compared to other systems.

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Re:The hotel bathroom puzzle by eeZah7Ux on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:48AM (#17534823)

Spot on. Most traditional engineering (electrical/electronics, chemical, civil) consider bloat and overcomplexity a big design failure.

This is mainly due to the cost of maintaining something during its lifetime.

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