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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 pe
by 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 agoFair. I can see where you're coming from.
- cygx 14y agoI 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 agoIt'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 agoYou have better things to do than tell people to invent time machines to go back and not do things that are already done.