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by mark-r
1427 days ago
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>> People abstract before an abstraction is necessary. > This one really frustrates me. Write code to the complexity level needed to solve the problem, and nothing more. The only time I'd break from this is if I know for certain that the added complexity is going to be necessary in the near term. I worked with a guy who did that. He had a plan for what the project would look like 5 years down the road, and he built abstractions to support that. He could get away with it because he could hold it all in his head and it all made sense to him. When version 1 was half finished he was called away to work on another project, and those of us who followed in his wake struggled to make any sense of what he left behind. A year later he was laid off. The project was a success, but nobody ever asked for version 2. |
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