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Today's "best practices" are tomorrow's "worst practices". I've seen it over and over in the 40+ years I've been writing software. Someone tells you "this is ho
by leptons 3y ago
Today's "best practices" are tomorrow's "worst practices". I've seen it over and over in the 40+ years I've been writing software. Someone tells you "this is how you need to code", and then 1 or 2 years later, someone else tells you "that's trash, now code like this". Rinse and repeat.
- chipdart 3y agoThe hard part is telling apart the tradeoffs of the new "code like this" claims, which often time are shit that fails to even consider the problems fixed by tlthe "old and busted". I mean, how come software development is the only field where everything done by your predecessors are shit?
- gofreddygo 3y agoIts pseudo-science and extends way beyond software in various parts of our life. Look at nutrition with a new superfood each year (pomegranate, seaweed, chia seeds, coconut oil, turmeric, ...) a new diet every couple years (keto, paleo, etc) Did the superfood of 2018 suddenly stop having all the antioxidants "benefits" ? Or did the hype cycle burn out?
- gadflyinyoureye 3y agoTo the foods, hype cycle burned out, but nutrition moved on. In the last few years it’s become apparent that that antioxidants needed to be balanced. Too many are just as bad as too few.