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If someone's already written a perfectly good solution that's readily available you either - pridefully write your own - use theirs
by timdiggerm 13y ago
If someone's already written a perfectly good solution that's readily available you either
- pridefully write your own
- use theirs
- arsenerei 13y agoI'm curious, why does pride come into the equation?
- Mindless2112 13y agoIf the existing implementation is perfectly good, writing your own is either pride, stupidity, or a learning exercise. I would take for granted that the Firefox developers aren't stupid, and that they have enough interesting work to do that they aren't going to spend time on it as a learning exercise.
- arsenerei 13y agoAh, okay. That feels a hyperbolic to be pride or stupidity, rather than just a poor analysis of the efficacy of an existing solution. Thank you for your response.
- baq 13y agoit took a bit of time for me to take serious pride in using other people's work. it's been so much easier to deliver anything since then.
- trustfundbaby 13y agoI don't think pride always enters into it, sometimes you just need diversity of thought around a problem. "We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors." - Bruce Joyce