Complexity used in a sentence

Complexity in a sentence as a noun

Hrm, that sounds like a lot of complexity and a big performance hit. In order to read a field from a struct, you have to do a vtable lookup to find the offset?

But these bugs come in all levels of complexity, from simple overstuffed buffers to logical ping-pong that hurts your brain when you try to follow it. We need to get rid of them once and for all.

There's a lot of complexity here I'm going to attempt to simplify. Apologies in advance if I glossed over any important details.

Examples that gradually increase in complexity. Start off with a simple hello world, graduate to a chat app or something simple, and get them to a full blown large application.

- Bring more structure than linear comments, but less complexity than threaded comments. - Encourage longer responses.

But as the math grew in complexity, I fell behind. By the time we reached Calculus I was still doing most of it in my head, as I had never really learned to write it out on paper. And the complexity of the math outgrew my capacity to visualize.

Again, here we have an example of someone pushing ideas that seem to have a lot of merit in the abstract but in the real world meet with so much complexity and roadblocks that they prove to be unworkable most of the time. It's a classic "worse is better" scenario.

Etc. This means the vast majority of players don't actually have to deal with the fractal domain complexity. And almost nobody has any clue there's any difference between say, an ITA and a Hipmunk, even though one has a million lines of code and runs thousands of machines and the other has a fairly standard website.

We also had another team from California working on this project, who consistently insisted that we go with Angular for a project of such complexity. Back then, on HN, everybody was writing about how awesome Angular is, and how you must use it for your next project and so on.

Our leaders are dazzled by arguments of complexity when the heart of the problem is genuinely, truly simple: Introduce and pass a bill to eliminate software patents, retroactively, and do it now.

I will only speak to my personal experience, and the experience of people around me: 20% time still exists, and is encouraged as a mechanism to explore exciting new ideas without the complexity and cost of a real product. My last three years were spent turning my 20% project into a product, and my job now is spent turning another 20% project into a product.

This article is not "complexity for complexity's sake", it's illustrating the complexity of making changes to any piece of code - and that it is surprisingly difficult for something that one would think is very easy!

However, much of this complexity is hidden, leaving people to think that > devices are memory-starved, CPU-starved, and battery-starved. In what freezing ******* **** is a dual-core, 1 GHz computer with gigabytes of RAM and tens of gigabytes of storage and 3D acceleration that can fit in my pocket memory-starved and CPU-starved?

We have the most fleeting glimpses of understanding that are regularly crushed by the complexity of dynamic systems with nested feedback loops and multiple semi-overlapping redundancies. I won't say it's impossible, but we don't even know enough to know whether the three things: high mortality, long incubation, and ease of transmission are even possible.

It's also a very poor fit for free markets, because it tends to be filled with monopolies and because free markets require informed participants and the extreme complexity of medicine makes that impossible for most. Historically, large numbers of people and companies have had no compunctions with taking advantage of this to defraud a lot of people, frequently while causing them pain or death.

The reason people are arguing against you is that even in 2012 on HN in the face of currently incompletely understood complexity people instantly start forming micro-religions complete with prophets and various 'higher-powers', and of course heretics and infidels. I mean seriously this article pretty much says "wow, this stuff is complex and really hard to make sense of", and the top comment is "but I have found the truth in this book!"

And in the meantime, they've been using an incredible pile of hack and tricks to try and approach levels of visual quality and complexity trivial on a raytracer, except said pile of hack could actually be computed before the heat death of the universe.