I hate "KISS"
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Well this is difficult in this case. I am not hit by my team mate. But by some remote team who had a look at the source code and with which I can't talk! I already asked them: "let's sit together and 'fix' the code" but... "there is no time"
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Maybe I was cavalier indeed. I didn't like web development at all, kind of sad doing it. Then I discovered knockout and that I could make quite advanced web app with little effort. Then the customer wanted a new application and we had time to build a prototype. The customer loved my prototype a lot and were quite impressed with it! But some developer hate the technology choice I made. Or the one I didn't make. As far as I can see I can only humanely do these kind of application with knockout or angular (or my own big library). But they hate either choices. And the customer really like my prototype! So my choices was: 1. continue doing spaghetti giant jQeury even handling and DOM manipulation with primitive table CRUD operation 2. sell a (more pleasant to me and more user pleasing) new concept, which displease some other developer I choose 2, maybe I should accept the consequences... but I am ... frustrated... Isn't it part of developer job to keep with the time? Isn't that so much easier when handled a working code base on a platter (as opposed to have to implement it on your own)?!
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The problem isn't with the technology. Knockout is much better than hand rolled jQuery all over the place. It's with the communication and management of the team.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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by one statement I mean one statment! not multiple statement on the same line. example 1: helloWordd(); 1 statement, 1 line example 2: hellowWorld(); howAreYou(); 1 line but 2 statements example 3: studliLongMethodNameForAMethodThatDoesNothingMuch(); 1 statement too! ;P example 4: a(); b(); c(); d(); 1 line, 4 statements! :omg:
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Because this is so... subjective!!! Right now at work some people hates me because I routinely replace 20 lines of jQuery (allegedly simple) with 1 Knockout statement (allegedly complicated). [Edit] to make it clear, I am NOT rewriting any existing code. I am talking of new code, which I prefer to write with a short and side effect free knockout statement instead of the (usual) pile of jQuery event and DOM creation method. Hey it's true, they look at it dumbfounded and say "it's unmaintainable" so the average programmer can't fix it, indeed! Now I am in a quandary, I convinced the client to implement a quite dynamic almost SPA couple of pages, with almost 1000 lines of TypeScript and 600 lines of HTML and knockout (with binding and template). To make it "more simple" I will have to balloon the code size to I dunno how much and spend zillion of hours debugging jQuery event handling and DOM creation spaghetti!!! :mad: (To the point, I don't think I can make it with just jQuery, I have to give up.... it's more dynamic than Facebook for god sake! maybe I exaggerate, but I like to think so! ;P) Well this is the maintenance team which complains about it, my project manager says to forget about it and continue using knockout when appropriate (which my team mates are slowly starting to love too) Now I get sprouted some vague insult... awful code.. you are so selfish and pretentious... why can't you follow KISS and SOLID principle insult every now and then! Very tiresome! While there is no more deaf than those that don't want to listen and I know it's a lost cause.. I still wonder about it... What I sell to the customer, is not just humanely doable in a reasonable time frame with just jQuery. Yet using Knockout I make it... "excessively complex" for some... (other developer) Mmmm... just wondering what to think of it... [EDIT2] I guess I am looking for a nice repartee to use in the conversation. Which is both convincing and easy to understand! ;P Something like they sprout me SOLID, KISS, I coolly reply this is way more KISS than your KISS version! (which I can't say, because their mere ignorance is proof that my code is not KISS :~ ) [Edit3] To give you an illustration, some people were confused when I started to use lambda expression... (or maybe generic?) (I think I started to get a bad rep for overengineering when I was using these strange things)
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Super Lloyd wrote:
Hey it's true, they look at it dumbfounded and say "it's unmaintainable" so the average programmer can't fix it, indeed!
If the average programmer can't maintain it then it isn't maintainable. The only subjective part of that is whether the average programmer can maintain it.
Super Lloyd wrote:
What I sell to the customer, is not just humanely doable in a reasonable time frame with just jQuery.
Why are you selling to a customer? And why is maintenance not part of the sale?
Super Lloyd wrote:
Very tiresome!
Myself I consider it a compliment when someone says that my code is easy to maintain. That is because I realize (as been proven by numerous studies) that the initial cost to develop something can be anywhere from 50% to 1% of the overall cost to maintain it. And being a professional working in a business (not a hobbyist) and one who likes to be paid I keep the primary goal of a business, to make money, always foremost in my mind. Thus I at least make the attempt to help keep maintenance costs down.
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Because this is so... subjective!!! Right now at work some people hates me because I routinely replace 20 lines of jQuery (allegedly simple) with 1 Knockout statement (allegedly complicated). [Edit] to make it clear, I am NOT rewriting any existing code. I am talking of new code, which I prefer to write with a short and side effect free knockout statement instead of the (usual) pile of jQuery event and DOM creation method. Hey it's true, they look at it dumbfounded and say "it's unmaintainable" so the average programmer can't fix it, indeed! Now I am in a quandary, I convinced the client to implement a quite dynamic almost SPA couple of pages, with almost 1000 lines of TypeScript and 600 lines of HTML and knockout (with binding and template). To make it "more simple" I will have to balloon the code size to I dunno how much and spend zillion of hours debugging jQuery event handling and DOM creation spaghetti!!! :mad: (To the point, I don't think I can make it with just jQuery, I have to give up.... it's more dynamic than Facebook for god sake! maybe I exaggerate, but I like to think so! ;P) Well this is the maintenance team which complains about it, my project manager says to forget about it and continue using knockout when appropriate (which my team mates are slowly starting to love too) Now I get sprouted some vague insult... awful code.. you are so selfish and pretentious... why can't you follow KISS and SOLID principle insult every now and then! Very tiresome! While there is no more deaf than those that don't want to listen and I know it's a lost cause.. I still wonder about it... What I sell to the customer, is not just humanely doable in a reasonable time frame with just jQuery. Yet using Knockout I make it... "excessively complex" for some... (other developer) Mmmm... just wondering what to think of it... [EDIT2] I guess I am looking for a nice repartee to use in the conversation. Which is both convincing and easy to understand! ;P Something like they sprout me SOLID, KISS, I coolly reply this is way more KISS than your KISS version! (which I can't say, because their mere ignorance is proof that my code is not KISS :~ ) [Edit3] To give you an illustration, some people were confused when I started to use lambda expression... (or maybe generic?) (I think I started to get a bad rep for overengineering when I was using these strange things)
My programming get away... The Blog...[](</x-turndown)
For me Keeping It Simple means that anyone in the team is able to understand, maintain and modify what i'm doing without too much trouble (or too much asking), and/or that it have less probability to go wrong, from this point of view, using one line of Knockout would be simpler, because it could fail less often than 20 lines of hand rolled jQuery that do DOM manipulation, and the maintenance team just need to learn a new tool to be able to maintain it!
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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Because this is so... subjective!!! Right now at work some people hates me because I routinely replace 20 lines of jQuery (allegedly simple) with 1 Knockout statement (allegedly complicated). [Edit] to make it clear, I am NOT rewriting any existing code. I am talking of new code, which I prefer to write with a short and side effect free knockout statement instead of the (usual) pile of jQuery event and DOM creation method. Hey it's true, they look at it dumbfounded and say "it's unmaintainable" so the average programmer can't fix it, indeed! Now I am in a quandary, I convinced the client to implement a quite dynamic almost SPA couple of pages, with almost 1000 lines of TypeScript and 600 lines of HTML and knockout (with binding and template). To make it "more simple" I will have to balloon the code size to I dunno how much and spend zillion of hours debugging jQuery event handling and DOM creation spaghetti!!! :mad: (To the point, I don't think I can make it with just jQuery, I have to give up.... it's more dynamic than Facebook for god sake! maybe I exaggerate, but I like to think so! ;P) Well this is the maintenance team which complains about it, my project manager says to forget about it and continue using knockout when appropriate (which my team mates are slowly starting to love too) Now I get sprouted some vague insult... awful code.. you are so selfish and pretentious... why can't you follow KISS and SOLID principle insult every now and then! Very tiresome! While there is no more deaf than those that don't want to listen and I know it's a lost cause.. I still wonder about it... What I sell to the customer, is not just humanely doable in a reasonable time frame with just jQuery. Yet using Knockout I make it... "excessively complex" for some... (other developer) Mmmm... just wondering what to think of it... [EDIT2] I guess I am looking for a nice repartee to use in the conversation. Which is both convincing and easy to understand! ;P Something like they sprout me SOLID, KISS, I coolly reply this is way more KISS than your KISS version! (which I can't say, because their mere ignorance is proof that my code is not KISS :~ ) [Edit3] To give you an illustration, some people were confused when I started to use lambda expression... (or maybe generic?) (I think I started to get a bad rep for overengineering when I was using these strange things)
My programming get away... The Blog...[](</x-turndown)
The problem isn't KISS. The problem is people who are not keeping their skills up to date. If they were always keeping up to date, they would take some time to evaluate the issue and see that things have improved and they can avoid all those lines. It is a problem to maintain because it looks like magic to them and they don't know the incantation. Chances are, they program by finding some code that does similar and modifying it as best they can. And there is a better than even chance these people don't really get what is happening there either.
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Super Lloyd wrote:
Hey it's true, they look at it dumbfounded and say "it's unmaintainable" so the average programmer can't fix it, indeed!
If the average programmer can't maintain it then it isn't maintainable. The only subjective part of that is whether the average programmer can maintain it.
Super Lloyd wrote:
What I sell to the customer, is not just humanely doable in a reasonable time frame with just jQuery.
Why are you selling to a customer? And why is maintenance not part of the sale?
Super Lloyd wrote:
Very tiresome!
Myself I consider it a compliment when someone says that my code is easy to maintain. That is because I realize (as been proven by numerous studies) that the initial cost to develop something can be anywhere from 50% to 1% of the overall cost to maintain it. And being a professional working in a business (not a hobbyist) and one who likes to be paid I keep the primary goal of a business, to make money, always foremost in my mind. Thus I at least make the attempt to help keep maintenance costs down.
jschell wrote:
Why are you selling to a customer?
And why is maintenance not part of the sale?Let's say I sold Facebook. It's not Facebook of course, but it is a little bit more dynamic. Things are popping here and there, there are multiple dynamic view of the same data. Mmmm... in an other word it's a SPA (single page application) Now I just can't develop a SPA with JUST jQuery. At the very least I would need to write a library of utilities. They are against (home made) libraries. If my code is not all on the page is too complicated. And this... is... just... beyond... my capabilities...
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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For me Keeping It Simple means that anyone in the team is able to understand, maintain and modify what i'm doing without too much trouble (or too much asking), and/or that it have less probability to go wrong, from this point of view, using one line of Knockout would be simpler, because it could fail less often than 20 lines of hand rolled jQuery that do DOM manipulation, and the maintenance team just need to learn a new tool to be able to maintain it!
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
There is also the fact I just CAN'T develop what the customer now want (my prototype, a nice SPA (Single Page App) with JUST jQuery and NO home made library.
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Because this is so... subjective!!! Right now at work some people hates me because I routinely replace 20 lines of jQuery (allegedly simple) with 1 Knockout statement (allegedly complicated). [Edit] to make it clear, I am NOT rewriting any existing code. I am talking of new code, which I prefer to write with a short and side effect free knockout statement instead of the (usual) pile of jQuery event and DOM creation method. Hey it's true, they look at it dumbfounded and say "it's unmaintainable" so the average programmer can't fix it, indeed! Now I am in a quandary, I convinced the client to implement a quite dynamic almost SPA couple of pages, with almost 1000 lines of TypeScript and 600 lines of HTML and knockout (with binding and template). To make it "more simple" I will have to balloon the code size to I dunno how much and spend zillion of hours debugging jQuery event handling and DOM creation spaghetti!!! :mad: (To the point, I don't think I can make it with just jQuery, I have to give up.... it's more dynamic than Facebook for god sake! maybe I exaggerate, but I like to think so! ;P) Well this is the maintenance team which complains about it, my project manager says to forget about it and continue using knockout when appropriate (which my team mates are slowly starting to love too) Now I get sprouted some vague insult... awful code.. you are so selfish and pretentious... why can't you follow KISS and SOLID principle insult every now and then! Very tiresome! While there is no more deaf than those that don't want to listen and I know it's a lost cause.. I still wonder about it... What I sell to the customer, is not just humanely doable in a reasonable time frame with just jQuery. Yet using Knockout I make it... "excessively complex" for some... (other developer) Mmmm... just wondering what to think of it... [EDIT2] I guess I am looking for a nice repartee to use in the conversation. Which is both convincing and easy to understand! ;P Something like they sprout me SOLID, KISS, I coolly reply this is way more KISS than your KISS version! (which I can't say, because their mere ignorance is proof that my code is not KISS :~ ) [Edit3] To give you an illustration, some people were confused when I started to use lambda expression... (or maybe generic?) (I think I started to get a bad rep for overengineering when I was using these strange things)
My programming get away... The Blog...[](</x-turndown)
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It's a bit of an exaggeration... with one statement you create a UI which automatically change when your data change and at the end... you got your data just there, up to date... no need to reconstruct with some data attribute... no need for jQuery create dom or read value or wire update event.... saves a lot! like doing WPF the WinForm way (use event on each property change and create control manually when needed) (this is jQuery) versus doing it the MVVM way...
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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Because this is so... subjective!!! Right now at work some people hates me because I routinely replace 20 lines of jQuery (allegedly simple) with 1 Knockout statement (allegedly complicated). [Edit] to make it clear, I am NOT rewriting any existing code. I am talking of new code, which I prefer to write with a short and side effect free knockout statement instead of the (usual) pile of jQuery event and DOM creation method. Hey it's true, they look at it dumbfounded and say "it's unmaintainable" so the average programmer can't fix it, indeed! Now I am in a quandary, I convinced the client to implement a quite dynamic almost SPA couple of pages, with almost 1000 lines of TypeScript and 600 lines of HTML and knockout (with binding and template). To make it "more simple" I will have to balloon the code size to I dunno how much and spend zillion of hours debugging jQuery event handling and DOM creation spaghetti!!! :mad: (To the point, I don't think I can make it with just jQuery, I have to give up.... it's more dynamic than Facebook for god sake! maybe I exaggerate, but I like to think so! ;P) Well this is the maintenance team which complains about it, my project manager says to forget about it and continue using knockout when appropriate (which my team mates are slowly starting to love too) Now I get sprouted some vague insult... awful code.. you are so selfish and pretentious... why can't you follow KISS and SOLID principle insult every now and then! Very tiresome! While there is no more deaf than those that don't want to listen and I know it's a lost cause.. I still wonder about it... What I sell to the customer, is not just humanely doable in a reasonable time frame with just jQuery. Yet using Knockout I make it... "excessively complex" for some... (other developer) Mmmm... just wondering what to think of it... [EDIT2] I guess I am looking for a nice repartee to use in the conversation. Which is both convincing and easy to understand! ;P Something like they sprout me SOLID, KISS, I coolly reply this is way more KISS than your KISS version! (which I can't say, because their mere ignorance is proof that my code is not KISS :~ ) [Edit3] To give you an illustration, some people were confused when I started to use lambda expression... (or maybe generic?) (I think I started to get a bad rep for overengineering when I was using these strange things)
My programming get away... The Blog...[](</x-turndown)
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'd say KISS is in the same eye. When you first encounter it, a lambda expression is anything BUT simple. I can see how, as you become more familiar with it, lambda can become beautiful. I'm not there yet, maybe I'm too old a dog. The simpler the code, the less likely to be buggy. So, a lambda statement should be less buggy. Handing it to someone who doesn't know lambda to maintain is a recipe for disaster. Right now I'm reading 14 page printouts of SQL code without a single line of documentation on what it is trying to do, several to provide data to it, but no documentation on what it should return and it is all self-contained string manipulation. I think I'd rather be struggling with 80 characters of non-understandable code.