You deal with getting a disparate bunch of people to persuade a mostly documented and mostly functional (as purchased) collection of IT systems to do largely what is required according to an almost complete specification (which changes on a daily basis). All of that is exhaustively and nearly documented correctly.
There's the weird bits where 2=3 but you don't talk about that too often. James was really clever but a bit strange even by your terms and left a lot of stuff that we can get away with describing as legacy. We sometimes have to explain ourselves to management why the system buys a bunch of flowers every Hallowe'en (piss off Google and your wiggly red line - it's hallowed evening and I know how to abbreviate that phrase correctly) and ships them to a graveyard plot in NOLA. We generally blame James but no-one really knows what on earth is going on. We wrote an automated call closer for that one with a random dialogue.
"There is a such thing as too much abstraction and indirection"
Yes there is. You got two words out of sequence!
"Premature abstraction is a type of premature optimization, just in code structure instead of execution."
I will try to follow your suggestion but it sounds like advice to a teenage boy.
English is a programming language too. You can make people do things by using it. How you deploy it is up to you. I try to come across as a complete wanker on internet forums and I'm sure I have been successful here.
There's the weird bits where 2=3 but you don't talk about that too often. James was really clever but a bit strange even by your terms and left a lot of stuff that we can get away with describing as legacy. We sometimes have to explain ourselves to management why the system buys a bunch of flowers every Hallowe'en (piss off Google and your wiggly red line - it's hallowed evening and I know how to abbreviate that phrase correctly) and ships them to a graveyard plot in NOLA. We generally blame James but no-one really knows what on earth is going on. We wrote an automated call closer for that one with a random dialogue.
"There is a such thing as too much abstraction and indirection"
Yes there is. You got two words out of sequence!
"Premature abstraction is a type of premature optimization, just in code structure instead of execution."
I will try to follow your suggestion but it sounds like advice to a teenage boy.
English is a programming language too. You can make people do things by using it. How you deploy it is up to you. I try to come across as a complete wanker on internet forums and I'm sure I have been successful here.
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