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I think it could be that rather than worshiping complexity some people find it hard to value or respect simple things, and that that leads them on a path to "ac
by klagermkii 8y ago
I think it could be that rather than worshiping complexity some people find it hard to value or respect simple things, and that that leads them on a path to "accidental" complexity. Like when someone find out that a rainbow is just water refracting light, or the sun is just a big ball of gas... that it takes some of the coolness out of it. There could be a tendency like that to find simple systems disappointing.
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.
- bena 8y agoOh, 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.
- majewsky 8y agoAlso, it's a big ball of plasma, which means that it's so hot inside that the heat literally tears atoms apart.
- windwake12 8y agoIt'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.
- rossdavidh 8y agoI 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).
- collyw 8y agoI cringe reading this. I take far more pride in removing code while keeping the same functionality than writing new code these days.