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According to the wikipedia, overengineering is : "... for a process to be unnecessarily complex or inefficient".
I disagree entirely. If a process suffers from those things it is not overengineered. It is very poorly engineered. There is a big difference.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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How do you feel about Rube Goldberg devices? Over-engineered or poorly engineered?
TTFN - Kent
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Those are perfectly designed for their purpose.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Experts discuss what's in store for popular and growing programming languages. To the compiler! (or interpreter as the case may be)
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Not a criticism to you and your posting this, Kent -- I am far less concerned with where languages are headed than I am concerned with where programmers are headed. Having worked in this field for 30+ years, I can confidently say, "not in the right direction." Finding programmers who actually care about the quality of their work (and *know* what quality even means so as to care about it) is a downward spiral.
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Agreed. I'm a little worried about the possible answers to the next question though:
Why do you think this direction is happening?
Is it the over-reliance on frameworks? (especially by JS devs)
Or IDEs?
Move towards busy-work (SOLID, "repository all the stuff", "clean code" etc.)
Just those dang kids on the lawn?
Something else?
TTFN - Kent
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Lack of good teachers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And lack of pride about doing things the best one can in many youngsters (it takes energy and time to do it)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I see this happening frequently in articles from O'Reilly (I read their programming newsletter)
Is C# really so irrelevant in the industry? Or there is no significant innovotation to report?
I don't think so...
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No, you're right - I think it's O'Reilly. They seem to have a blind-spot for some reason. Maybe Bill/Satya said something nasty about their animal covers, or it's a holdover from their old Unix/Linux days.
TTFN - Kent
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A new study shows hardly any website cookie consent forms comply with Europe's GDPR rules. What if I want a cookie?
I wonder what the processing overhead would be if sites switched to some sort of digital fingerprinting (ala EFF's Panopticlick)
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Seriously?
Well, I never expected that!
Who would have thought that web-site owners could be lying, thieving con-men?
My hosts file has 5,132 entries for sites that break the law. I neither associate with nor render aid to criminals -- even if they've got cool web-sites (theverge.com, this means you).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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AbemaTV’s new documentary “Full Moon Lovers” will follow Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as he hunts for that special someone — who will then join him on a SpaceX trip around the Moon in 2023. Hopefully the moon will not hit their eye (like a big pizza pie)
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Quote: I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space
I am not sure if this is smart or not?
Smart: no one will hear so he can quickly ditch them if things don't turn out well.
Dumb: well if your needing me to spell it out, you are in this group.
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maze3 wrote: I am not sure if this is smart or not?
Smart: no one will hear so he can quickly ditch them if things don't turn out well.
Dumb: well if your needing me to spell it out, you are in this group. Natural selection: Do it, and don't forget to open the security glass of your space suit, so the earth can hear you better.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Bethesda’s has given its re-releases of Doom 1 and 2 from last year a pretty hefty update that improves performance, adds new features, and gives access to a huge amount of content in the form of free community-made add-ons. Finally! Now I can play it on a computer, rather than on the refrigerator and toaster.
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Best sit down and read this story with a mug of hot steaming (green) tea Drink fast - next week it will kill you.
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Golly!
That's a wonderfully interesting bit of research, which proves categorically that green tea is good for you.
Where was it carried out, again?
It's almost as interesting as the research from Brazil, showing how good coffee is for you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: research from Brazil, showing how good coffee is for you Let's add French research which proves that red wine is good for your health, and Bavarian research which proves that beer is good for your health.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Frederick the Great proclaimed (13-Sep-1777): It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. My people must drink beer. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You don't have to be drunk to work here, but it helps?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In the Prussian army? Definitely!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Their entire research project is a giant Leslie.
In the 1970's I heard a radio 'news' about people who drink six or more cups of coffee a day have twice the chance of a heart attack as people who don't. And in addition, they found that tea drinkers seemed to average fewer heart attacks than the norm.
And this whole study is worthless BS because they forget to take into account the same thing:
In the 70's it was "coffee and a cigarette" and tea drinkers, on the other hand, were less likely to smoke than the average population. Most people who smoke die from the heart attack (nicotine) before they get lung cancer. Unfortunately in these studies, they always find what they're looking for.
Remember the three C's:
Coincidence
Correlation
Cause and Effect
And learn to observe the difference.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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And a fourth 'C' = Conflict (of interest). Always pay attention to who funds the study, especially with food-related stuff.
TTFN - Kent
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