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"Invented here syndrome" is a real and pernicious problem.
by Veuxdo 4y ago
"Invented here syndrome" is a real and pernicious problem.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI think it probably depends on the size of organization. NIH is a problem in old and large organizations, which actually have a large roster of homegrown solutions. On the flip side, I feel a lot of smaller organizations have the opposite problem, like a weird phobia against nontrivial code. Like you need a special license to implement a bespoke data structure or some graph algorithm.