Very sad that the moderators are closing such interesting questions, because they do not conform to their opinion of what should go on the site, even though the topic is obviously hugely popular and appealing to a lot of users.
Stuck due to “knowing too much”
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Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#12The moderation on programmers.stackexchange.com is completely overbearing. How can a question about analysis paralysis be closed for off-topic? If stackoverflow is for technical question/answer, what is the point the linked stackexchange if not for discussion of a common programmer problem like this? I see stuff like this closed all time time and it's really annoying.
Agreed. If any StackExchange people read this please do something about this. It's a great site that fills a necessary niche but the moderation is killing it!
Indeed; it seems every interesting question on there is removed as off-topic.
Sounds like a key indicator that S-O is ripe for displacement...
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#13The moderation on programmers.stackexchange.com is completely overbearing. How can a question about analysis paralysis be closed for off-topic? If stackoverflow is for technical question/answer, what is the point the linked stackexchange if not for discussion of a common programmer problem like this? I see stuff like this closed all time time and it's really annoying.
Ditto for StackOverflow itself? I just can't understand why so often a really valuable topic that collects insightful answers gets closed up because of not fitting some template.
Also, I don't get the idea of "protected questions" - the ones marked by:
"This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site."
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#14this is easier said than done, but the key to avoiding analysis paralysis is to worry about building the right abstractions and only that. if the software is abstracted well -- ie it correctly represents the underlying problem at an adequate resolution -- then it becomes easy to say YAGNI in the short run with the confidence that refactoring or adding functionality will be straight forward later.
not really. because you can over analyze what the right abstractions can be. it's only a matter of how abstract you want it to be, believe me.
Analysis Paralysis is inevitable as long as you want to write the RIGHT thing.
As soon as you accept "good enough, we'll upgrade later if necessary", you start moving towards the right thing.
Anything that says perfect, adequate, right, correct, etc. is wrong and leads to the dark side.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#15I submitted it because it's exactly how I feel lately, and would like to know what others think about it. My current (personal/academic) project involves Node.js, (Iced)CoffeeScript, MongoDB (with Mangoose), PhantomJS, Mocha, Neo4j, Nutch, Solr, Hadoop and Mahout. All of them are new technologies and are changing rapidly and daily, and I find new stuff every day that forces me to change my APIs and the way I do thing…
I suffer from the same trouble on occasions. I primarily deal with the Microsoft ecosystem which is volatile and fragmented at the best of times. I would kill to do something in good old java/mysql. A lot of the new ideas and principles are a mess. Don't get too absorbed - just use what lets you get the job done quickly and efficiently. a lot of it is just noise. I tend to find that a complete break from everything f…
Try postgreSQL next time, at least it's ACID compliant ;)
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#16I also found myself getting stuck and over-engineering. Now, I try to take a phased approach to development:
1. Make it work.
2. Make it good (visually or otherwise).
3. Make it fast.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#17The moderation on programmers.stackexchange.com is completely overbearing. How can a question about analysis paralysis be closed for off-topic? If stackoverflow is for technical question/answer, what is the point the linked stackexchange if not for discussion of a common programmer problem like this? I see stuff like this closed all time time and it's really annoying.
Agree completely. If that is "off topic for software development", then everything is off topic for software development.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#18Very sad that the moderators are closing such interesting questions, because they do not conform to their opinion of what should go on the site, even though the topic is obviously hugely popular and appealing to a lot of users.
It's particularly outrageous because the given reason is "off topic for software development". It's quite clear from that judgment that the moderators don't know much about the topic and therefore are not qualified to hold a position of moderator on a board devoted to software development topics.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#19I also found myself getting stuck and over-engineering. Now, I try to take a phased approach to development: 1. Make it work. 2. Make it good (visually or otherwise). 3. Make it fast.
Re: Stuck due to “knowing too much”
#20The moderation on programmers.stackexchange.com is completely overbearing. How can a question about analysis paralysis be closed for off-topic? If stackoverflow is for technical question/answer, what is the point the linked stackexchange if not for discussion of a common programmer problem like this? I see stuff like this closed all time time and it's really annoying.
It might be off-topic for StackOverflow,but how on earth is this off-topic on programmers.stackexchange?! If such discussions are off-topic, then why did they create programmers.stackexchange in the first place?