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Re:The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) by Doxin on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @07:19AM (#21920533)
Sounds like a group of people succumbing to the inner platform effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

It's not nearly as uncommon as I'd like.

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Re:The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:24AM (#21920821)
It doesn't sound like inner-platform-effect to me. teddyuk didn't say they were reinventing the wheel, just that they were doing awful things with dictionaries.
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Re:The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) by teddyuk on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:26PM (#21922693)
I started reading the article:

“ The inner-platform effect is the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable...”

Yup, that was it and I have seen it so many times - architects should think that a flexible system that “can just” handle any possible future requirement. This always ends in a mess of junk that isn’t actually needed by the business.

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