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Against Best Practices

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279 points ingve | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 07:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | 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. eapriv ◴[18 Nov 24 16:14 UTC] No.42173789[source]▶
The name “best practices” kind of implies that they actually are practiced somewhere. So it’s different from theoretical abstract ideas “how we should write software”, which maybe nobody follows.