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>I honestly don't know what gatekeeping means in this context. you're trying to create a barrier to standardization. You don't want to codify successful patter
by bluntfang 7y ago
>I honestly don't know what gatekeeping means in this context.
you're trying to create a barrier to standardization. You don't want to codify successful patterns to keep your job coveted.
>Yeah - that's what I said. You realize that's where all the complexity is, right?
That's not what you said.
- jacobsenscott 7y ago> you're trying to create a barrier to standardization. You don't want to codify successful patterns to keep your job coveted. Ugh. I use as many libraries and services as possible so I can focus on writing code when no standard tools exist. That will keep me busy every day forever. If you think I'm out there sabotaging standardization efforts you're delusional. I wouldn't even know how to do that. Slash tires at a W3C convention or something?
- jdmichal 7y agoYou're being extremely uncharitable. Look, business processes are different at every single company. Especially between companies doing the exact same thing. Which means that the software ostensibly doing the exact same thing at each of these companies is going to vary dramatically. Because the software at a company aligns to the business processes of that company. This is the true heart of Conway's law: "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." And there is no fixing this. It's baked directly into the axioms. If every company in a domain ran exactly the same way, there would be no such thing as a competitive advantage.