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Against Best Practices

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279 points ingve | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 07:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.519s | source
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eapriv ◴[18 Nov 24 12:17 UTC] No.42171733[source]▶
Software around us is quite terrible, so it’s kind of obvious that one shouldn’t follow “best practices” that led to this state of things.
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rileymat2 ◴[18 Nov 24 12:22 UTC] No.42171758[source]▶
That implies they were created with best practices in the first place.
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1. resonious ◴[18 Nov 24 12:59 UTC] No.42171942[source]▶
If not, then what was created with best practices in the first place?

If we can agree that most large, financially successful software projects are of questionable quality, then either

- they used best practices and yet they still suck, OR

- they did not use best practices, but are widely successful anyway.

So no matter how you look at it, software best practices just haven't panned out.

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2. a96 ◴[20 Nov 24 20:43 UTC] No.42197910[source]▶
"All hardware sucks, all software sucks."