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> It would still take me just as long to ramp up on the equivalent Oracle offerings The claim isn't that better names help you ramp up faster. It's that they
by jonahx 6y ago
> It would still take me just as long to ramp up on the equivalent Oracle offerings
The claim isn't that better names help you ramp up faster. It's that they make it faster to figure out which service you need, or if a service is relevant to you. That said, per the point in my previous post, it's likely that if you can't even clearly describe or name your service, you can't write clear documentation either. I've found that's often the case.
> But thousands of people take the time to learn it.
I don't understand what argument you're making. Is it: Since some subset of people will invest time in learning technology even if it's complicated, therefore it doesn't matter if it's too complicated? If so, you'd have to show that the number of people using it wouldn't increase were it simpler, with clearer names, etc.
That seems unlikely. The whole ethos of many successful companies -- Stripe, Mailchimp come to mind -- is to differentiate themselves by simplifying. It matters to the vast majority of users, developers or otherwise.
- scarface74 6y agoSince some subset of people will invest time in learning technology even if it's complicated, therefore it doesn't matter if it's too complicated? If so, you'd have to show that the number of people using it wouldn't increase were it simpler, with clearer names, etc. Well, two points. 1. From a completely selfish standpoint, if people aren’t willing to learn about AWS, it helps me out a lot. I’m able to make more money by taking the time to learn it. 2. There are three credible cloud providers -AWS, Azure, and GCP - and Oracle. Amazon is twice as large as Azure and 5 times larger than GCP. It doesn’t seem to be hurting them. Just like the obtuse clusterf%%% that is modern front end development doesn’t seem to be hurting the adoption by the $cool_kids.
- jonahx 6y ago> Just like the obtuse clusterf%%% that is modern front end development doesn’t seem to be hurting the adoption by the $cool_kids. This is true, and it may even help with adoption among "cool kids." But the adoption could be much, much higher if it weren't such a clusterf%%%. There is an almost infinite amount of marketshare from a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from Wordpress down to "vanilla jquery" that could be eaten into. Again, you can't look at some successful thing S lacking quality X and conclude "quality X doesn't matter." You have to compare "S with X" to "S without X". Sometimes a direct experiment is possible, sometimes not.