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Why do you have such a strong objection to someone spending their own free time to simplify and / or mimic [insert unix tool functionality here]. It clearly se

by doktrin 14y ago

Why do you have such a strong objection to someone spending their own free time to simplify and / or mimic [insert unix tool functionality here]. It clearly serves a purpose and it's apparently useful. Most importantly, it exists, so there's no need to argue over how you think it should have been implemented. I'm sure if you were to release your own [script / wrapper], someone would find use for it, in the same manner that some have apparently used 'replace'. I honestly fail to see the big deal here.

mrb 14y ago
I know it someone's right to do this, of course. I object because I come from an environment (software industry) where I have spent hundreds of hours undoing people's poor jobs where they wasted time and money reimplementing (incorrectly) library functions, system commands, etc. Because of this personal experience, I reacted the same way many reacted when seeing her script. So, I decided to explain to her and attempt to convince her that she should have spent her time and skills on something else (especially because she seems a rather good programmer!) Does it make sense?
- doktrin 14y ago
  Fair. I can see where you're coming from.
- cygx 14y ago
  I object because I come from an environment [...] where I have spent hundreds of hours undoing people's poor jobs where they wasted time and money reimplementing [...] system commands What you fail to take into account is that there's definitely a niche for Node.js-based development tools such as this script: The GNU userland is not ubiquitous. Node.js did not come with a system command to search and replace across files - now it does.
- chris_wot 14y ago
  It's a one off tool, unlikely to be used in any project you are writing software for. She provided the source code freely, and the code isn't bad at all. I fail to see why you will ever need to rewrite this?
- Evbn 14y ago
  You have better things to do than tell people to invent time machines to go back and not do things that are already done.

by doktrin 14y ago

mrb 14y ago

I know it someone's right to do this, of course. I object because I come from an environment (software industry) where I have spent hundreds of hours undoing people's poor jobs where they wasted time and money reimplementing (incorrectly) library functions, system commands, etc. Because of this personal experience, I reacted the same way many reacted when seeing her script. So, I decided to explain to her and attempt to convince her that she should have spent her time and skills on something else (especially because she seems a rather good programmer!) Does it make sense?

doktrin 14y ago
Fair. I can see where you're coming from.
cygx 14y ago
I object because I come from an environment [...] where I have spent hundreds of hours undoing people's poor jobs where they wasted time and money reimplementing [...] system commands What you fail to take into account is that there's definitely a niche for Node.js-based development tools such as this script: The GNU userland is not ubiquitous. Node.js did not come with a system command to search and replace across files - now it does.
chris_wot 14y ago
It's a one off tool, unlikely to be used in any project you are writing software for. She provided the source code freely, and the code isn't bad at all. I fail to see why you will ever need to rewrite this?
Evbn 14y ago
You have better things to do than tell people to invent time machines to go back and not do things that are already done.