I can only think that modern front end development has failed

Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by ickelbawd on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:13PM (#26690656)

The measure of what is better in all these companies is determined internally and generally by the business. So it ultimately serves the business and only serves the user indirectly—-if at all. Obviously you optimize for different things—-performance, reliability, simplicity perhaps. And the business has more stakeholders who want different things, more metrics, more integrations with their third-party tools, etc. That’s not to say your measure of better is wrong. It’s probably not and I probably agree with you! But it’s coming from a different place I think.

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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by leephillips on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:18PM (#26690709)

I appreciate your comment. But isn’t my conception of quality the only one that matters? If a doctor saves money for her employer by skipping some expensive test, and my health outcome is worse, her employer may be happy, but we don’t say that she is a good doctor.

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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by slt2021 on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:02PM (#26691061)

here is proper doctor comparison: imagine you are a plastic surgeon and patients comes in with stack of cash and demands you make a surgery that is not medically necessary and is high risk for him - and you do it anyways and then the patient leaves happy. if you refuse, the patient would just go to the doctor next door and pay him.

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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by leephillips on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:10PM (#26691130)

This is clearly a terrible doctor. Am I wrong? Isn’t this doctor violating the Hippocratic oath?

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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by slt2021 on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:46PM (#26691406)

plastic surgeons usually perform procedures that are not medically necessary, but only improve appearance to boost patient's self-esteem (boob job, facelift, butt job, etc)

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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by leephillips on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:20PM (#26691652)

You moved the goalpost. You stipulated high risk in the comment I was replying to. And who cares what plastic surgeons “usually” do? A doctor who gives boob jobs to women who are already “normal” (not to reconstruct after a mastectomy, for example) is a scourge who is exploiting society’s bad attitudes and exploiting his patients. Not a good doctor. Or are you suggesting that if a lot of people do it, that makes it good?

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