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I think the whole notion of "you should be spending more time doing X" is kind of pointless. People do whatever they think is fun, especially for open source p
by veemjeem 17y ago
I think the whole notion of "you should be spending more time doing X" is kind of pointless. People do whatever they think is fun, especially for open source projects. Maybe you should be spending that time saving whales instead!
- gloob 17y agoWhat's more, if there's one group of programmers who should be worried about doing things The Right Way, it's library writers.
- Davertron 17y agoI think he's talking about people using Rails worrying too much, not the people writing the Rails framework. Just as an aside, I totally agree that we spend too much time worrying about this sort of thing. I'm definitely guilty of this myself. I think it's probably born out of the heavy use of "convention over configuration" in Rails; whenever I try to do something, I always think "Am I following convention here?". My instinct now usually tells me "probably not, but just get it done and worry about that later".