Comments on: Rewarding complexity

By: Advantages of crude models — The Endeavour

Advantages of crude models — The Endeavour — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:58:54 +0000

[...] model is worthwhile before I invest too much effort in it. And I’m well aware of forces that reward complexity for its own [...]

By: John

John — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:02:08 +0000

Somewhere along the line Windows did cut out some code. They did a thorough security review and along the way found some code was unnecessary. I forget when that was. And there may have been more recent efforts that I haven’t heard of.

By: human mathematics

human mathematics — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:56:37 +0000

I am not an expert but I thought Windows’ bloat was just a matter of expediency rather than purposeful choice. I thought I’d read that since XP at least it was a goal of MS to shrink the codebase down.

By: Stupidity scales — The Endeavour

Stupidity scales — The Endeavour — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:22:32 +0000

[...] scar tissue Rewarding complexity What’s wrong with paper? ? [...]

By: Forced to be simple — The Endeavour

Forced to be simple — The Endeavour — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:40:33 +0000

[...] familiar with simple Rewarding complexity A little simplicity goes a long way ? [...]

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:12:43 +0000

He is wrong.
The reason for nation’s collapse is not complexity but sins.
Material oriented minds will not understand that life is a very short period in which we will be judged according to our deeds ,

good deeds = simple happy life ,
bad deeds = complex miserable (collapse) life.

Thanks,
Ahmed.

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:04:27 +0000

That’s certainly true.

What probably hurts is that teaching, blogging and industry consulting are not rewarded in academia. So, people can build nonsense unhindered.