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Except that happens far more often when you roll your own code internally. For anything of even moderate complexity, only the author will know how it works.
by caymanjim 7y ago
Except that happens far more often when you roll your own code internally. For anything of even moderate complexity, only the author will know how it works.
- clarry 7y ago> For anything of even moderate complexity, only the author will know how it works. I think that's as much true of external dependencies as it is of ones that you wrote for yourself. With the exception that your own solution is probably smaller, much smaller, because it only ever needed to solve your immediate needs and not everything else a third party had to deal with. So it's quite possible that the internal solution is more approachable when the time comes to debug it.
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- hinkley 7y agoIf this person is bad at knowledge transfer, they end up being the only expert and thereby gaining status for having done so, when objectively this should cost them status instead.