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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: 0.213s | source
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layer8 ◴[18 Nov 24 17:52 UTC] No.42174920[source]▶
The advantage of best practices is that you have something you can follow without having to analyze the situation in depth. The disadvantage of best practices is that you may have to analyze the situation in depth to notice that they maybe aren’t the best choice in the specific situation. The harm that best practices can do are lessened by viewing them as a rule of thumb conditioned on certain premises rather than as a dogma.
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baxtr ◴[18 Nov 24 21:39 UTC] No.42177386[source]▶
That’s why I think Best Practice is a bad term. I rather call it something like Best Toolkit or Best Elements.
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1. JKCalhoun ◴[19 Nov 24 01:55 UTC] No.42179401[source]▶
Maybe the problem is the word Best. Perhaps Standard Practice is better — suggests "the usual way we do things" without presuming it is the best and only way to do things.