Re:Do We Worship Complexity?
by rossdavidh on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:08PM
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I have heard co-workers say that the code where we were working used to be dissatisfactory because there just wasn't very much of it, but now it's much better. My mind was boggled. Less code is almost always better (obviously there are exceptions, but rarely in production, in my experience).
I cringe reading this. I take far more pride in removing code while keeping the same functionality than writing new code these days.
Re:Do We Worship Complexity?
by windwake12 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:05PM
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It's a "oh shiny" thing from my point of view. People get bored with the old, and want to try the new Google/Netflix/Microsoft tech, irrespective of its suitability. Once the client/customer signs off on it, internally it becomes political.
Oh, I do dislike that attitude. "The sun is just a big ball of gas."
Dude. That "big, ball of gas" "just" spontaneously ignited due to gravitational forces and supports life on this planet. That's fucking wild. It's way more cool that it's simple. You try squeezing air hard enough to make it explode.
Or it could just be that people have a certain mental budget for maximum complexity, and they'll try and make sure they spend it all in the belief that it will cover more uses.
Or it could be that complex systems tend to stick around because they are far more immune to random management changes because everyone goes "oooh, we'd better not touch that". Simple systems might becomes the victim of their own ease and get subsumed by a more complex monster.