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> The craft of real engineering—building sharp, efficient, elegant systems—is buried under layers of corporate sludge No. It is buried under the laziness of bu
by nashashmi 2y ago
> The craft of real engineering—building sharp, efficient, elegant systems—is buried under layers of corporate sludge
No. It is buried under the laziness of build-fast, optimize-next. Except optimizing never comes. Building fast requires lightweight development on heavyweight architectures. And that means using bloats like JS frameworks.
- ryandrake 2y agoIt might be time for "24 core CPU and I can't move my mouse"[1][2] to make the rounds on HN again. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733829 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032
- wat10000 2y agoThere's a saying about engineering, "Anyone can design a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands." I might rephrase that for our field: anyone can design software that works. It takes an engineer to design software that barely works.