We need a clean start. A lot of layers can and should be rebuilt, and even if you do it without reducing functionality, I feel like in a lot of cases like we’ll be able to cut down the code significantly.
When I explain software bloat to non technical people, I say imagine you built a 10 story building, but every few years it was a story at a time with the renovations along the way.
Like there’s gonna be a lot of inefficiencies. Yea I know we refactor. But doing a clean slate rebuild. Knowing exactly what you need based on real world experience, it should work to really streamline stuff.
People didn’t seem to believe me when I said that hardware engineers have a better time than software engineers.
But think about it: they can and will “start from scratch” whenever they see the need to do so, while software engineers have been forced to cope with bad decisions from the 80s because the cost of starting fresh was simply unaffordable for most projects.
Hardware is not starting from scratch every time. You might think that if you've never worked with hardware, but there are plenty of SDKs out there that support 300 device types from the same extended family with different combinations of ifdefs.
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An initial inquiry blamed the collapse on the Pal-Kal method of constructing light-weight coffered concrete floor systems which was banned shortly after …
Late in the construction process … a third storey was added. … the structure supporting the new third storey was subjected to much greater loading than was originally anticipated. … somewhat mitigated by the construction of partitions on the floor below …
A few weeks before the collapse, the wedding hall owners decided to remove the partitions. … the floor above began to sag several centimetres. The owners viewed the sagging floor primarily as a cosmetic problem, and attempted to level it with additional grout and fill … a new and significant dead load at the weakened area.
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We need a clean start. A lot of layers can and should be rebuilt, and even if you do it without reducing functionality, I feel like in a lot of cases like we’ll be able to cut down the code significantly.
When I explain software bloat to non technical people, I say imagine you built a 10 story building, but every few years it was a story at a time with the renovations along the way.
Like there’s gonna be a lot of inefficiencies. Yea I know we refactor. But doing a clean slate rebuild. Knowing exactly what you need based on real world experience, it should work to really streamline stuff.