3 ms·

>you are no longer in control of your own software. In a business setting you have no control over what will happen with your software in the long run, and som

>you are no longer in control of your own software. In a business setting you have no control over what will happen with your software in the long run, and somebody else will take over for you, so this is an INCREDIBLY weak justification for not using libraries. One of the major appeals of libraries is that the very fact you can figure out how to use them means that somebody else can. That’s something you can’t say about your own code as easily. If you don’t reuse other peoples code, how can you know the first thing about writing code other people can reuse? Not using other peoples libraries is akin to being a chef that will only eat their own food.

kreeben 4y ago
>> you have no control over what will happen with your software Can you please go directly to your boss's office and tell him that you are not even close to being in control of the objectives he told you at the convention, that you should have, if you want that bonus we've been talking about?
- faeriechangling 4y ago
  I’m not a software god. I am unable to impose my will upon any codebase I have ever touched for eternity. I admit somebody is eventually going to rewrite and refactor and extend my shit code which was written with the curse of knowledge, minimal review, minimal testing, and never having to handle more than a narrow set of use cases. Code which may have been easier to write and more efficient than the libraries available but that is going to be thrown out when somebody has to maintain my handwritten JavaScript framework replacement and goes “what the fuck”. Somebody who only uses their own code has awful taste in code.
  - kreeben 4y ago
    This is a delightful rebuttal and I applaud you for it. I hereby withdraw any claims I might have made with regards to the topic at hand because you have clearly the upper hand on what is right and what is simply nonsense. I wish your upcoming corporate day to be a blissful one. No, that last sentence was way to illfull. Sorry for inventing a new word. It means "full of ill".

kreeben 4y ago

>> you have no control over what will happen with your software Can you please go directly to your boss's office and tell him that you are not even close to being in control of the objectives he told you at the convention, that you should have, if you want that bonus we've been talking about?

faeriechangling 4y ago
I’m not a software god. I am unable to impose my will upon any codebase I have ever touched for eternity. I admit somebody is eventually going to rewrite and refactor and extend my shit code which was written with the curse of knowledge, minimal review, minimal testing, and never having to handle more than a narrow set of use cases. Code which may have been easier to write and more efficient than the libraries available but that is going to be thrown out when somebody has to maintain my handwritten JavaScript framework replacement and goes “what the fuck”. Somebody who only uses their own code has awful taste in code.
- kreeben 4y ago
  This is a delightful rebuttal and I applaud you for it. I hereby withdraw any claims I might have made with regards to the topic at hand because you have clearly the upper hand on what is right and what is simply nonsense. I wish your upcoming corporate day to be a blissful one. No, that last sentence was way to illfull. Sorry for inventing a new word. It means "full of ill".