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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by javajosh on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @03:48PM (#13925547)
Multi-month approval sucks, but to be honest I wish more companies were more skeptical of adding 3rd party dependencies. At the very least, do a code review of the dependency (and it's dependencies..) and acknowledge the actual cost associated with the addition you are making.

Hardly ever happens.

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by AtheistOfFail on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:28PM (#13925929)
The issue that most "dev shops" can't estimate anything beyond three months so the best they can do is "this 3rd party dependency speeds up current process by X"
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