The big cup problem
It’s a strange thing about a big cup … or any large container for that matter. When you see it empty your immediate response is to fill it up. What can I put in here? There’s still some room in here, how can I use it? When you pull out a cup from your cupboard to take a drink you almost always fill it up.
I’ve found myself lately writing code to solve a problem, looking at the volume of code and being upset over how little of it there is. I think, “Wow, I really wanted to solve a big problem. This code works but I can’t use it because there’s not enough here to match up with the magnitude of the problem!”. It’s like buying expensive software that comes in just a CD case. We shell out big bucks and only get a CD in a jewel case? No, no, no; I want to feel like I got my moneys worth!
How often do we do that? We start with this big cup and try to fill it up. We write more code than necessary,more tables than needed, more infrastructure, more text in the blog post, more, more, more.
The problem isn’t the work or the stuff; it’s the cup. We start with a big cup and try to fill it. Start with a small cup. If it overflows then great! Get a bigger cup.
It’s okay to get stuff done with less. Less code, less effort, fewer hours. Scale it back. Pare it down. Do just the bare essentials and do them exceeding well.
Heres to a new year of smaller cups. Happy new year, all!
Well … as you start to explain (I think), Unit test - and even more - acceptance test help a lot about it. It helps by drawing the cup, and in most case it is a small cup … or your feature is maybe not well identified nor objective.
So, simple requirement, small tests, very nice solution !
For me, there is nothing frustrating about a ’small lines’ code, it helps a lot !
But, oneday, as u said, trying to solve a simple code, I see myself writing many-many-many code lines in a big-mess-as-my-cellar… beurk !
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