Haven't looked deeper in it, but why does it happen all the time that people think they can fix complexity by adding another layer of complexity too it?
Perhaps because David J. Wheeler said "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps because David J. Wheeler said "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."
Except too many levels of indirection...
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#23Haven't looked deeper in it, but why does it happen all the time that people think they can fix complexity by adding another layer of complexity too it?
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#24Haven't looked deeper in it, but why does it happen all the time that people think they can fix complexity by adding another layer of complexity too it?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps because David J. Wheeler said "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection."
Except too many levels of indirection...
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#26Re: Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient
#27Haven't looked deeper in it, but why does it happen all the time that people think they can fix complexity by adding another layer of complexity too it?
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#28Hey just fyi in case you don't know, jetpack[1] is the name of a very well known wordpress plugin by Automatic. Might cause some confusion. [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
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#29Haven't looked deeper in it, but why does it happen all the time that people think they can fix complexity by adding another layer of complexity too it?
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#30Haven't looked deeper in it, but why does it happen all the time that people think they can fix complexity by adding another layer of complexity too it?
I'm not entirely sure but I see this pop up a lot with webpack. Webpack is not inherently difficult to configure, it just requires you to read the documentation. All these solutions are doing is adding what they feel are sane defaults to the webpack experience. I don't see how this would appeal to someone who knows webpack well. In my opinion these solutions are just intended for a minority of new developers. For any…