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Well it all gets down to definitions and its more of a rule of thumb. However, I'm very suspicious of ideas that seem to be good only because the complexity giv
by greendestiny 17y ago
Well it all gets down to definitions and its more of a rule of thumb. However, I'm very suspicious of ideas that seem to be good only because the complexity gives them a certain gravitas. Its sort of a version or expansion (or misappropriation) of Gall's law:
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
- diN0bot 17y agoPlease list a dozen. I like the challenge of attempting to break problems down into small parts. THx.
- ntoshev 17y agoWhat less than a search engine can you build if you've got pagerank? in fact you can't even know if pagerank works unless you have a search engine.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoSure, but you don't need to index the entire internet to build PageRank; only a subset of pages that form a graph. And, it's pretty easy to break the notion of building a search engine into smaller, discrete steps-- hell, I'd imagine that it could be done by two Stanford grad students.