Re:Coding without Google
by joemi on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:51PM
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I don't really see how this means things are worse now than they used to be. You can still write things from scratch now (just as you did). But "back in the day" you had much more limited options for libraries, so you were not always able to glue stuff together, and often forced to write things from scratch. I'd argue that means it's better now than it used to be.
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It's a matter of expectations. Working on my own projects, I can rewrite and ignore existing software to my heart's content. If I am working with others, there is a very strong expectation that 3rd party software will be used whenever possible, and that I will participate in other engineering practices/fads that are judged to be beneficial. I don't mind doing things that have a good rationale for the problem at hand, but very often a team will do X because X is supposed to be a good thing to do. Cargo cult engineering, if you will.
Re:Coding without Google
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday May 27, 2016 @11:49AM
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> It's a matter of expectations. Working on my own projects, I can rewrite and ignore existing software to my heart's content. If I am working with others, there is a very strong expectation that 3rd party software will be used whenever possible, and that I will participate in other engineering practices/fads that are judged to be beneficial
Isn't that just part of 'being a professional' tho?
Being a "professional" means thinking. There is much unthinking adoption of the popular tools and approaches.