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If you have to ask questions like this, you haven’t been working in the industry long enough.
by johnwheeler 9y ago
If you have to ask questions like this, you haven’t been working in the industry long enough.
- jnbiche 9y agoIt's a reasonable question. It's not clear how much interactivity is required outside of the webview, but if there's very little or none, then it would be perfectly reasonable and simple to use the native mobile APIs to wrap the webview. And thus avoid all the problems mentioned above.
- whostolemyhat 9y agoYep, that's our long-term plan, but saying we want to get rid of our working app and re-write it as two new apps from scratch doesn't go down particularly well with the business.
- gt_ 9y agoHaven't been in the industry long enough to do what? Ask questions? It appears you have been working in the industry too long to answer them, which is much worse.
- libria 9y ago> Haven't been in the industry long enough to do what? Ask questions? To be jaded. It's merely a jab at the way we tend to overcomplicate solutions to simple problems. I think.
- johnwheeler 9y agoYes, that’s right
- websitescenes 9y agoI was wondering the same thing. It seems like the this may be a case of choosing the wrong tool for the wrong job. Some clarification around the context of the problem could eliminate that possibility. Seems like a fair question.
- SCdF 9y agoOK. Let's say that's completely true. Is snarkily telling someone they're not good enough helpful? Seems like a moment where you could share what you know (as someone, presumably, has been in the industry long enough) and help someone. (FWIW it sounds like a decent question to me: but then again undoubtedly I have not been in the industry long enough!)
- johnwheeler 9y agoI wasn’t meaning that at all. I meant that if you have to ask why people solve problems with over complicated solutions, you haven’t been doing this very long. The answer is: it’s in our nature to make simple things difficult. It shows more maturity if you just accept people do stupid things without trying to pry a rationale out of them IMO.
- SCdF 9y agoThat is a reasonable opinion to have for sure, I think it just wasn't too obvious what you meant unfortunately!