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Yeah, no thanks. Programmers already ignore best practices and already have too much fun, look at the lack of good documentation for a lot of projects and look
by omouse 16y ago
Yeah, no thanks. Programmers already ignore best practices and already have too much fun, look at the lack of good documentation for a lot of projects and look at the crappiness of most apps or the piles of bugs they contain. There are very few programmers who act professionally, I don't know why you would want to celebrate that fact.
- hammerdr 16y ago"Best Practices" are anything but--becoming dogmatic about programming is a Bad Thing(tm). Otherwise, the projects that WhyDay is encouraging are meant to be creative. Without creativity, we stagnate. No one is suggesting that a 4kb implementation of X become part of standard libraries. However, there could be endlessly useful things learned from such exercises even if its just a creative outlet for many programmers.
- chc 16y agoDo you think the "crappiness of most apps" is because those apps were just too well-loved by their creators or because the people behind the app didn't care enough to do it properly (or even learn how to)? Turning programming into mindless drudgery where you just go down a checklist of best practices is the reason so many programs are crap. The apps by passionate solo developers who really pour themselves into their work tend to be better than the just-barely-passes-tests work you'll get out of a cog-in-the-machine enterprise coder who just wants to go home.
- jevans 16y agoHuh. I always thought the HN Fun Police were mythical.