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967 lines
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HTML
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
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<title>Easy will always trump simple – Surfing Complexity</title>
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<meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large' />
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<script id="wpcom_remote_login_js">
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var wpcom_remote_login_extra_auth = '';
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function wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_id( element_id ) {
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var dom_node = document.getElementById( element_id );
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if ( dom_node ) { dom_node.parentNode.removeChild( dom_node ); }
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}
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function wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_classes( class_name ) {
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var dom_nodes = document.querySelectorAll( '.' + class_name );
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for ( var i = 0; i < dom_nodes.length; i++ ) {
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dom_nodes[ i ].parentNode.removeChild( dom_nodes[ i ] );
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}
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}
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function wpcom_remote_login_final_cleanup() {
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wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_classes( "wpcom_remote_login_msg" );
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wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_id( "wpcom_remote_login_key" );
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wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_id( "wpcom_remote_login_validate" );
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wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_id( "wpcom_remote_login_js" );
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wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_id( "wpcom_request_access_iframe" );
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wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_id( "wpcom_request_access_styles" );
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}
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// Watch for messages back from the remote login
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window.addEventListener( "message", function( e ) {
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if ( e.origin === "https://r-login.wordpress.com" ) {
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var data = {};
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try {
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data = JSON.parse( e.data );
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} catch( e ) {
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wpcom_remote_login_final_cleanup();
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return;
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}
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if ( data.msg === 'LOGIN' ) {
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// Clean up the login check iframe
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wpcom_remote_login_remove_dom_node_id( "wpcom_remote_login_key" );
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var id_regex = new RegExp( /^[0-9]+$/ );
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var token_regex = new RegExp( /^.*|.*|.*$/ );
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if (
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token_regex.test( data.token )
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&& id_regex.test( data.wpcomid )
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) {
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// We have everything we need to ask for a login
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var script = document.createElement( "script" );
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script.setAttribute( "id", "wpcom_remote_login_validate" );
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script.src = '/remote-login.php?wpcom_remote_login=validate'
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+ '&wpcomid=' + data.wpcomid
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+ '&token=' + encodeURIComponent( data.token )
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+ '&host=' + window.location.protocol
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+ '//' + window.location.hostname
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+ '&postid=6663'
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+ '&is_singular=1';
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document.body.appendChild( script );
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}
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return;
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}
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// Safari ITP, not logged in, so redirect
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if ( data.msg === 'LOGIN-REDIRECT' ) {
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window.location = 'https://wordpress.com/log-in?redirect_to=' + window.location.href;
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return;
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}
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// Safari ITP, storage access failed, remove the request
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if ( data.msg === 'LOGIN-REMOVE' ) {
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var css_zap = 'html { -webkit-transition: margin-top 1s; transition: margin-top 1s; } /* 9001 */ html { margin-top: 0 !important; } * html body { margin-top: 0 !important; } @media screen and ( max-width: 782px ) { html { margin-top: 0 !important; } * html body { margin-top: 0 !important; } }';
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var style_zap = document.createElement( 'style' );
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style_zap.type = 'text/css';
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style_zap.appendChild( document.createTextNode( css_zap ) );
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document.body.appendChild( style_zap );
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var e = document.getElementById( 'wpcom_request_access_iframe' );
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e.parentNode.removeChild( e );
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document.cookie = 'wordpress_com_login_access=denied; path=/; max-age=31536000';
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return;
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}
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// Safari ITP
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if ( data.msg === 'REQUEST_ACCESS' ) {
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console.log( 'request access: safari' );
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// Check ITP iframe enable/disable knob
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if ( wpcom_remote_login_extra_auth !== 'safari_itp_iframe' ) {
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return;
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}
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// If we are in a "private window" there is no ITP.
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var private_window = false;
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try {
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var opendb = window.openDatabase( null, null, null, null );
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} catch( e ) {
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private_window = true;
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}
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if ( private_window ) {
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console.log( 'private window' );
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return;
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}
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var iframe = document.createElement( 'iframe' );
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iframe.id = 'wpcom_request_access_iframe';
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iframe.setAttribute( 'scrolling', 'no' );
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iframe.setAttribute( 'sandbox', 'allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation' );
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iframe.src = 'https://r-login.wordpress.com/remote-login.php?wpcom_remote_login=request_access&origin=' + encodeURIComponent( data.origin ) + '&wpcomid=' + encodeURIComponent( data.wpcomid );
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var css = 'html { -webkit-transition: margin-top 1s; transition: margin-top 1s; } /* 9001 */ html { margin-top: 46px !important; } * html body { margin-top: 46px !important; } @media screen and ( max-width: 660px ) { html { margin-top: 71px !important; } * html body { margin-top: 71px !important; } #wpcom_request_access_iframe { display: block; height: 71px !important; } } #wpcom_request_access_iframe { border: 0px; height: 46px; position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; min-width: 100%; z-index: 99999; background: #23282d; } ';
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var style = document.createElement( 'style' );
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style.type = 'text/css';
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style.id = 'wpcom_request_access_styles';
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style.appendChild( document.createTextNode( css ) );
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document.body.appendChild( style );
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document.body.appendChild( iframe );
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}
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if ( data.msg === 'DONE' ) {
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wpcom_remote_login_final_cleanup();
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}
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}
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}, false );
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// Inject the remote login iframe after the page has had a chance to load
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// more critical resources
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window.addEventListener( "DOMContentLoaded", function( e ) {
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var iframe = document.createElement( "iframe" );
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iframe.style.display = "none";
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iframe.setAttribute( "scrolling", "no" );
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iframe.setAttribute( "id", "wpcom_remote_login_key" );
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iframe.src = "https://r-login.wordpress.com/remote-login.php"
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+ "?wpcom_remote_login=key"
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+ "&origin=aHR0cHM6Ly9zdXJmaW5nY29tcGxleGl0eS5ibG9n"
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+ "&wpcomid=30291541"
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+ "&time=" + Math.floor( Date.now() / 1000 );
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document.body.appendChild( iframe );
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}, false );
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</script>
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<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//s2.wp.com' />
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<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//widgets.wp.com' />
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<link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//s0.wp.com' />
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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Surfing Complexity » Feed" href="https://surfingcomplexity.blog/feed/" />
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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Surfing Complexity » Comments Feed" href="https://surfingcomplexity.blog/comments/feed/" />
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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Surfing Complexity » Easy will always trump simple Comments Feed" href="https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/08/17/easy-will-always-trump-simple/feed/" />
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<style id="wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css">
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img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^="auto," i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px}
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<style id="wp-emoji-styles-inline-css">
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of the early criticisms of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was about how it could account for the development of complex biological structures. It’s often not obvious to us how the earlier forms of some biological organ would have increase fitness. “What use”, asked the 19th century English biologist St. George Jackson Mivart, “is <a href="https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/origin-flight-what-use-half-wing">half a wing</a>?” </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One possible answer is that while half a wing might not be useful for flying, it may have had a different function, and evolution eventually repurposed that half-wing for flight. This concept, that evolution can take some existing trait in an organism that serves a function and repurpose it to serve a different function, is called <em>exaptation</em>.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Biology seems to be quite good at using the resources that it has at hand in order to solve problems. Not too long ago, I wrote a <a href="https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/07/07/book-review-how-life-works/">review of the book How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology</a> by the British science writer Philip Ball. One of the main themes of the book is how biologists’ view of genes has shifted over time from the idea <em>DNA-as-blueprint</em> to <em>DNA</em>-as-<em>toolbox</em>. Biological organisms are able to deal effectively with a wide range of challenges by having access to a broad set of tools, which they can deploy as needed based on their circumstances. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We’ll come back to the biology, but for a moment, let’s talk about software design. Back in 2011, Rich Hickey gave a talk at the (sadly defunct) Strange Loop conference with the title <em>Simple Made Easy</em> (<a href="https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md">transcript</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4">video</a>). In this talk, Hickey drew a distinction between the concepts of <em>simple</em> and <em>easy</em>. <em>Simple</em> is the opposite of complex, where <em>easy</em> is something that’s familiar to us: the term he used to describe the concept of <em>easy</em> that I really liked was <em><strong>at hand</strong></em>. Hickey argues that when we do things that are <em>easy</em>, we can initially move quickly, because we are doing things that we know how to do. However, because <em>easy</em> doesn’t necessarily imply <em>simple</em>, we can end up with unnecessarily complex solutions, which will slow us down in the long run. Hickey instead advocates for building <em>simple</em> systems. According to Hickey, simple and easy aren’t inherently in conflict, but are instead orthogonal. <em>Simple</em> is an absolute concept, and <em>easy</em> is relative to what the software designer already knows. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I enjoy all of Rich Hickey’s talks, and this one is no exception. He’s a fantastic speaker, and I encourage you to listen to it (there are some fun digs at agile and TDD in this one). And I agree with the theme of his talk. But I also think that, no matter how many people listen to this talk and agree with it, <em>easy</em> will always win out over <em>simple</em>. One reason is the ever-present monster that we call <em><strong>production pressure</strong></em>: we’re always under pressure to deliver our work within a certain timeframe, and easier solutions are, by definition, going to be ones that are faster to implement. That means the incentives on software developers tilts the scales heavily towards the <em>easy</em> side. Even more generally, though, <em>easy</em> is just too effective a strategy for solving problems. The late MIT mathematics professor Gian-Carlo Rota noted that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180725194822/https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-lessons.html">every mathematician has only a few tricks</a>, and that includes famous mathematicians like Paul Erdős and David Hilbert. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Let’s look at two specific examples of the application of <em>easy</em> from the software world, specifically, database systems. The first example is about knowledge that is at-hand. Richard Hipp implemented the SQLite v1 as <a href="https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/">a compiler that would translate SQL into byte code</a>, because he had previous experience building compilers but not building database engines. The second example is about an <em>exaptation</em>, leveraging an implementation that was at-hand. Postgres’s support for multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) relies upon an implementation that was originally designed <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/04/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most.html">for other features, such as time-travel queries</a>. (Multi-version support was there <a href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA187244.pdf">from the beginning</a>, but MVCC was only added in <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.5/release14025.htm">version 6.5</a>). </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now, the fact that we rely frequently on <em>easy</em> solutions doesn’t necessarily mean that they are good solutions. After all, the Postgres source I originally linked to has the title <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/04/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most.html">The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most</a>. Hickey is right that <em>easy</em> solutions may be fast now, but they will ultimately slow us down, as the complexity accretes in our system over time. Heck, one of the first journal papers that I published was a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950584904001740?via%3Dihub">survey paper on this very topic of software getting more difficult to maintain over time</a>. Any software developer that has worked at a company other than a startup has felt the pain of working with a codebase that is weighed down by what Hickey refers to in his talk as incidental complexity. It’s one of the reasons why startups can move faster than more mature organizations.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But, while companies are slowed down by this complexity, it doesn’t stop them entirely. What Hickey refers to in his talk as <em>complected</em> systems, the resilience engineering researcher David Woods refers to as <em>tangled</em>. In the resilience engineering view, Woods’s <em>tangled, layered networks</em> inevitably arise in complex systems.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hickey points out that humans can only keep a small number of entities in their head at once, which puts a hard limit on our ability to reason about our systems. But the genuinely surprising thing about complex systems, including the ones that humans build, is that individuals don’t have to understand the system for them to work! It turns out that it’s enough for individuals to only understand parts of the system. Even without anyone having a complete understanding of the whole system, we humans can keep the system up and running, and even extend its functionality over time.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now, there are scenarios when we do need to bring to bear an understanding of the system that is greater than any one person possesses. My own favorite example is when there’s an incident that involves an interaction between components, where no one person understands all of the components involved. But here’s another thing that human beings can do: we can work together to perform cognitive tasks that none of us could do on their own, and one such task is remediating an incident. This is an example of the power of <em>diversity</em>, as different people have different partial understandings of the system, and we need to bring those together.</p>
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