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Refactorable God v.s. too many classe [duplicate]
So I have this problem: in order to structure my code hierarchically, for every new tiny thing, I create a separate sub-folder, file, class ... and in it one 10-line function. It is an anti-pattern.
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What is the name of this particular kind of over-engineering?
When faced with (even a small) project, I tend to fall into the following bad practice. I think about the structure of the problem. Then I create some base classes, derive from them and then derive ...
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How to call something that can be both a user and a usergroup?
My idea is, to create an abstract class / interface which can be extended into a user, and into a usergroup.
There actually is a good reason for there being this interface connecting the groups with ...
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Why does this article state that graduate education liberate one from concerns like the efficiency of hardware-based integers?
Quoting The Evolution of Haskell Programmer,
graduate education tends to liberate one from petty concerns about,
e.g., the efficiency of hardware-based integers
What exactly does this ...
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What is the lowest level that you can program? [closed]
At university we had to implement our own program counter in microcode and I doubt that it's possible to do computer programming at a lower level.
Then we wrote the interrupt handler in assembly for ...
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Code Reuse and Abstraction in FP vs OOP [closed]
I've been told that code reuse and abstraction in OOP is far more difficult to do than it is in FP, and that all the claims that have been made about Object Orientedness (for lack of a better term) ...
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Can too much abstraction be bad?
As programmers I feel that our goal is to provide good abstractions on the given domain model and business logic. But where should this abstraction stop? How to make the trade-off between abstraction ...
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Adding explicit interfaces to Legacy managed C++ code
I have a bit of a challenge and I am not sure how to approach this.
We have a very very large project (that is about 5 years old).
The code base is HUGE so a full refactor is out of the question.
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Does learning to play an instrument improve programming ability? [closed]
I've seen plenty of questions asking if listening to music boosts productivity, etc. but I haven't been able to find one about performing music. Learning to play the piano has been on my to-do list ...
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Designing a SQL-like encapsulation object for programmatic use
In the last few weeks, I have been working on a Data Mapping Library, which has involved lots of research, experimentation, crying, blaming the whiteboard for not being big enough, and more research. ...
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Refactoring an existing abstract class and its parameters
I have an abstract class A which declares an abstract method doStuff. Currently there are many classes that inherit from A and implement doStuff.
The class' instances are initialized at run-time ...
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Is this over-abstraction? (And is there a name for it?)
I work on a large Django application that uses CouchDB as a database and couchdbkit for mapping CouchDB documents to objects in Python, similar to Django's default ORM. It has dozens of model classes ...
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Is there a name for being able to quickly find the relevant code?
I notice that a property of codebases that I like hacking on is that it's quick to find the relevant code for some feature, without knowing much about the code base at all. For example, searching for ...
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Why does Java use so many middlemen? [closed]
For example to read data from a website we do:
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = ...
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Using a DAO to abstract our ORM from the rest of the application
We're using MySQL with Sequelize.js as the ORM.
What we're wondering is whether a DOA layer of abstraction is worthwhile. Here are our options:
To use the Sequelize models throughout the ...
