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Everything seem complicated when you dont properly understand the problem.
by matsemann 11y ago
Everything seem complicated when you dont properly understand the problem.
- CharlesW 11y agoThat's a really interesting thought, because everything also seems simple when you don't properly understand the problem. ("Let Apple open the damn back door, let the FBI know what's on the phone, then close it again. This isn't difficult." — Piers Morgan)
- arnorhs 11y agoyou two are discussing separate sides of the same coin. or to clarify: people with a naive understanding of a problem will always feel like people who don't design solutions that are overly complex. people with a deeper understanding of a problem will always feel like people who don't design solutions that are overly simplistic.
- slavik81 11y agoI've successfully refactored way too much code that was needlessly complex to agree. Better understanding of a problem frequently leads to simpler solutions. It doesn't always lead to more complexity.
- arnorhs 11y agoWhether people who are bad at programming, or at least inexperienced, write overly complicated code or not has got nothing to do with what I said. Except that there's word-choice correlation.