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To quote one of Akin's laws which were on HN yesterday, "better is the enemy of good". It's really good when one technology is used throughout an organization
by lopatin 8y ago
To quote one of Akin's laws which were on HN yesterday, "better is the enemy of good".
It's really good when one technology is used throughout an organization to achieve the same purpose. At some point, the technology you use is actually good enough, and incremental improvements to "keep up with the times" are simply distractions from the real work. And if at some point you find that your tech has truly stagnated, at least you're stagnated together, and can modernize together at the same time.
- zygimantasdev 8y agoThe problem is how will you find that your tech has stagnated? If nobody experiments with new tech - who will teach others? How will that knowledge come into your corp? Hiring new people to do that will not work, because: - People being hired will be evaluated by legacy people (different thinking will be considered disadvantage during interviews) - Legacy people will not listen to new hires since they have no credibility and it "has been the way it was always done"
- lopatin 8y agoThese are solvable problems. Just because a group of engineers agree on a standard tool, doesn't mean that they are blind to the world around them, or that they are now doomed to be single minded "legacy" people. I'm sorry if in your experience this hasn't been the case. Maintaining a balance between using modern technology and having a healthy "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude is certainly do-able. But when every team is doing it's own version of the same thing, that's another story. It can be crushing to productivity, in fact it's likely to be the deciding factor if some types work get done at all. And, unlike your concerns about preventing stagnation, the only way to solve that problem is to stop doing it.