#complexity

Sean FenianThis observation regarding <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Labyrinth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labyrinth</a> comes from a trusted long-time friend. I quote it verbatim because I believe it an important insight.<blockquote>My mother had a surprisingly good take on it: Jareth was exactly the villain Sarah needed him to be, asked him to be. This does not change the fact he is a villain, but it goes a long way to explain the complexity of their relationship. Mom also said that Labyrinth was one of the very few movies she'd ever seen that portrayed the life of a <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/teenage" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#teenage</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/girl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#girl</a> in all its <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/complexity" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>: very adult desires awakening, coexisting briefly with a childhood that's not ready to go yet. And, per Mom, if the movie's themes make you uncomfortable, you are the one with the problem, because you are telling teenage girls an honest portrayal of their existence makes you uncomfortable.</blockquote>

Ethan Black :idle:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fribbledom</a> It frustrates me. If feels like lots of basic <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UX</a> stuff seems to be made by incompetent people.But what I think is the main problem is: I believe the software world has just gotten far too complicated. Look at the size of programs these days. There's just so much <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>, and I think we're having trouble working with it.

Programming QuotesDon't waste your time typing up that long visionary tome; no one's going to read it. Take consolation in the fact that if you give your product enough room to grow itself, in the end it won't resemble anything you wrote about anyway. — Gina Trapani<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Programming QuotesPrograms must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Gerald Jay, Harold Abelson<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Programming QuotesOrganizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. — Conway's law<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Programming QuotesThe key is to acknowledge from the start that you have no idea how this will grow. When you accept that you don't know everything, you begin to design the system defensively... You should spend most of your time thinking about interfaces rather than implementations. — Nicholas Zakas<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Programming QuotesAny fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Programming QuotesA complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. — John Gall<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Jörg Seidel<a href="https://mastodon.social/@vaetiv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vaetiv</a> Example of a complex system: the IT infrastructure of any cooperation older than ten years <a href="https://det.social/tags/thermodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thermodynamics</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/energysystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energysystems</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resilience</a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/robustness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#robustness</a>

Engineering ScienceComplex systems are often said to be systems where ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’ & where simple rules can create astonishingly intricate behavior.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thermodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thermodynamics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energysystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energysystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#resilience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robustness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#robustness</a>

Mike Gifford, CPWA @ #OSSummit“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Complexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Populism</a>

Programming QuotesThe secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application. — Justin Meyer<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwares</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/specification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#specification</a>

Dr. Adam Steerwho wants to pay me to reproduce this illustration with some cleaning up and in colour?Drawn on FF Kronprins Haakon in 2021 for a talk on the ship (which, unfortunately, I've lost :/ ). The left side was published in the 2022 Fram Forum, the right side was a bit too spicy of a hot take in a field which still insists we can do it all from spaceborne platforms 😬❄️<a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/seaice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seaice</a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systems</a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scicomm</a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illustration</a>

Programming QuotesYou do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ideas</a>

Programming QuotesA design is "simple" if it follows these rules: Runs all the tests; Contains no duplication; Expresses the intent of the programmer; Minimizes the number of classes and methods. — Kent Beck<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Inautilo<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Development</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analyses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Analyses</a> The orders of complexity of websites · Why big web features fail small websites <a href="https://ilo.im/164nnv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ilo.im/164nnv</a>_____ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Simplicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Simplicity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Complexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebPlatform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebPlatform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebTechnology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Websites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Websites</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebApps</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CMS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigWeb</a>

kali#1 #2 the source of the anger is not that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> is happening, but, first, that "nothing has been done to prevent it", and then there is this pure, helpless rage at the fact that we do not even seem to understand the actual reasons why we are not acting...it is the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>, humans struggle so much with it.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/doomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#doomers</a>

Programming QuotesA sentence should be enough to get the idea across. — 37Signals<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

Programming QuotesWell-designed components are easy to replace. Eventually, they will be replaced by ones that are not so easy to replace. — Sustrik's Law<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexity</a>

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