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> no intellectual challenge I tend to think that cargo cult programming and resume-driven development are the intellectual path of least resistance. Perhaps it
by rizzom5000 3y ago
> no intellectual challenge
I tend to think that cargo cult programming and resume-driven development are the intellectual path of least resistance. Perhaps it's analogous to, "I'd rather rewrite this than understand how it works", because that requires less intellectual effort. Quality engineering is not achieved by the intellectually lazy, from what I've seen.
- isoprophlex 3y agoYou're not wrong, but when you're inheriting a convoluted 50 file React shitfest that could have been a single HTML page and 20 lines of javascript... what are you going to do? Invest time in understanding that, or radically simplify in 20% of the time it takes to grok what you get thrown at you?
- groestl 3y agoNo, a single HTML page and 20 lines of Javascript is clear cut. But there's a _lot_ of instances where it's not that way, and still rewrites are being proposed.
- waynesonfire 3y agostrawman. why do you even have a 50 file react shitfest to begin with? Hint: perhaps because someone want to pad their resume?
- groestl 3y agoI've seen this. Usually a combination of no economical constraints and technical curiosity on the engineers side.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoHint: because almost every web developer is a junior who doesn't know what they're doing. Proof: that's literally what a significant positive growth rate of an occupation means - if the doubling period is N years, then at any given moment, half the workforce has N years of experience or less. I don't remember the estimate for webdev, but I think N was something between 3 to 5 years.
- codelobe 3y agoAh, I see you are also a coder of culture... The trick is to get the Project Management to migrate to a hot new framework: Vanilla JS... http://vanilla-js.com/ http://vanilla-js.com/
- asalahli 3y agoWell I still need to understand what it is doing in order to radically simplify it and still have it do the exact same thing.
- groestl 3y ago> I'd rather rewrite this than understand how it works Sounds like "how should I know what I think before I hear what I say" ;)
- TeMPOraL 3y agoI mean yes, it works that way? Hence inner narrative, for those who have it, and/or talking to yourself via notebook or a text file.