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I have to admit that I did not do any web development, but I have a pretty good idea of what kind of complexity and challenges it does involve. I also know abou

by sklogic 11y ago

I have to admit that I did not do any web development, but I have a pretty good idea of what kind of complexity and challenges it does involve. I also know about it from interaction with the frontend developers themselves and from toying around it. I know what kind of tools are available, I know how dead easy debugging is. There is nothing nearly comparable in complexity with a hardware design.

aeharding 11y ago
It seems like you're being a little biased. Writing the architecture for a new Intel CPU is much more difficult than writing a calculator on an FPGA or designing a circuit board. Similarly, designing and maintaining the UX of Amazon.com is a lot more difficult than a personal website. Is Physics 'harder' than Psychology just because it's 'more hardcore' or 'more pure'? Apples to oranges. You cannot really make comparisons like that.
- sklogic 11y ago
  > designing and maintaining the UX I did not say a word about design, I was talking about development. UX design is probably among the most complex problems out there, since it is not solved yet and there is even no glimpse of a distant hope. > Amazon.com Well, this one was obviously designed by a drunk cobbler, and he could not have spent more than half an hour overall, judging by how miserable the user experience is. > Is Physics 'harder' than Psychology just because it's 'more hardcore' or 'more pure'? Physics is solvable, Psychology is not, the latter is in an early phenomenological state of development. So, on this scale, it is harder to apply it (because one have to operate with a much bigger amount of information), but it is much easier in terms of models. > You cannot really make comparisons like that. Of course you can. Complexity is a very well-defined and objective thing.

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I have to admit that I did not do any web development, but I have a pretty good idea of what kind of complexity and challenges it does involve. I also know abou

by sklogic 11y ago

aeharding 11y ago
It seems like you're being a little biased. Writing the architecture for a new Intel CPU is much more difficult than writing a calculator on an FPGA or designing a circuit board. Similarly, designing and maintaining the UX of Amazon.com is a lot more difficult than a personal website. Is Physics 'harder' than Psychology just because it's 'more hardcore' or 'more pure'? Apples to oranges. You cannot really make comparisons like that.
- sklogic 11y ago
  > designing and maintaining the UX I did not say a word about design, I was talking about development. UX design is probably among the most complex problems out there, since it is not solved yet and there is even no glimpse of a distant hope. > Amazon.com Well, this one was obviously designed by a drunk cobbler, and he could not have spent more than half an hour overall, judging by how miserable the user experience is. > Is Physics 'harder' than Psychology just because it's 'more hardcore' or 'more pure'? Physics is solvable, Psychology is not, the latter is in an early phenomenological state of development. So, on this scale, it is harder to apply it (because one have to operate with a much bigger amount of information), but it is much easier in terms of models. > You cannot really make comparisons like that. Of course you can. Complexity is a very well-defined and objective thing.