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This is amazing. I don't think these kinds of lists are necessarily always true, or always relevant, but I think they are great at provoking thought, and great
by SCdF 8y ago
This is amazing.
I don't think these kinds of lists are necessarily always true, or always relevant, but I think they are great at provoking thought, and great at reminding us that real life is impossible to cleanly codify into a computer model.
- ignoramous 8y ago> reminding us that real life is impossible to cleanly codify into a computer model. Also see Joe Armstrong's talk, The Mess We Are In: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
- majewsky 8y agoIt's also important to remind people to not roll your own when battle-tested libraries exist. (The exception being, of course, building something for the sake of learning. By all means, build your own date formatting functions, but don't put them in production.)
- rendall 8y agoAssuming that the library exactly serves the needs of the project without much cruft, or the cost of rolling your own is higher than using a library all else considered, and the library is well written and documented, then I agree. As a completely unrelated aside, I wonder if there should be a "Falsehoods programmers believe about libraries"
- BerislavLopac 8y agoI'd certainly like to see "Falsehoods programmers believe about passwords". And for that matter, "Falsehoods programmers believe about programming", and possibly "Falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods". ;)