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by lccerina 107 days ago
Dijkstra understood it 50 years ago, and again 26 years ago [1]. Nothing changes. Malpractice just propagate and there are zero incentives to build simple, small, and maintainable software. If the company you work for just push for unnecessary complexity, get out of there! Don't fold!

[1]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1305.PDF
3 comments
ivanjermakov 107 days ago
> If the company you work for just push for unnecessary complexity, get out of there!

If every company I know does this, how am I suppose to make money?

There are reasons for "unnecessary" complexity. Mainly cost and time.

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sdevonoes 107 days ago
> If the company you work for just push for unnecessary complexity, get out of there!

Why? We learn all these cool patterns and techniques to address existing complexity. We get to fight TRexes… and so we get paid good money (compared to other jobs). No one is gonna pay me 120K in europe to build simple stuff that can work in a single sqlite db with a php fronted.

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lccerina 107 days ago
Except now we get websites that need to download 20-25MB of "latest cool framework" to show you a blurb of text because programmers before you created unnecessary complexity that needs to be maintained forever.

The honest opinion no one wants to hear is that programmers do not deserve the money they are paid for because MOST of the time what it's really needed is a "single sqlite db with a php frontend".

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sdevonoes 107 days ago
Fair. I work on backend, and there we usually need db replication, sharding, event brokers, monitoring and alerting, autoscaling. I wish we wouldn’t need all of that, and could use a single server with sqlite… but that won’t cut it.
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dgxyz 107 days ago
Malpractice is exactly the word for this sort of shit.
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