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Re:Stop Learning Frameworks by toyg on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:38PM (#18708575)
I would upvote you a billion times if I could. I’ve seen so many good ideas getting lost because of overcomplicated approaches to the implementation, and so many “boringly simple” systems delivering immense value. I am guilty of this too. It’s a variation on Knuth’s famous “premature optimization” mantra, and is still as actual as ever.
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Re:Stop Learning Frameworks by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:43PM (#18708626)
Back when I was doing lead coder and tech PM work, I'd see these ads online for contracts for projects that were just getting started.

They were just getting started -- yet there was this ton of technical frameworks they just knew they needed.

For the ones I knew, I went ahead and applied, of course. Even got a few of them. But it always amused me that they could be so sure of all the frameworks and tools -- and not have a clue as far as to what the code was going to do.

This is just a nerd version of "we've formed a club and are looking for other cool kids to join"

Fine enough, I guess. Sure were a lot of those projects that failed, though.

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Re:Stop Learning Frameworks by philippeback on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:27PM (#18709100)
Amen a billion times to that. And then some.
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