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There's a lot of software developers who like to over-engineer things. Some are probably working at Medium.



At times I feel filling the building with just a few too many smart people can sometimes cause a regression on experience as things are over engineered and too many people struggle to find smarter solutions to solved problems.

Take Google Maps for example, the old tile based version is blazing fast and uses almost no CPU. "Modern" version of Maps makes my MacBook Pro fans turn on almost straight away, chugs and chokes when dragging and although the zoom motion is clearer the actual data display isn't any better.




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