Best Practices Exist for a Reason
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I have been saddened and, yes, angry, about the recent trend in the JavaScript community; to throw away the best practices we have spent a long time honing in what, to my eyes, is an act of machismo; a revolt against good engineering practices for the sake of revolting rather than to make the world a better place.
You're doing it wrong. Or are you?
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I have been saddened and, yes, angry, about the recent trend in the JavaScript community; to throw away the best practices we have spent a long time honing in what, to my eyes, is an act of machismo; a revolt against good engineering practices for the sake of revolting rather than to make the world a better place.
You're doing it wrong. Or are you?
But many "best practices" are not even good practices. (Though none come to mind at the moment.)
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I have been saddened and, yes, angry, about the recent trend in the JavaScript community; to throw away the best practices we have spent a long time honing in what, to my eyes, is an act of machismo; a revolt against good engineering practices for the sake of revolting rather than to make the world a better place.
You're doing it wrong. Or are you?
This reminds me of the time when the jQuery plugins site was completely obliterated. And how I just fixed some SQL injection vulnerabilities created by another developer. People don't follow best practices. They follow quick and easy (and failure prone) practices. :((
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I have been saddened and, yes, angry, about the recent trend in the JavaScript community; to throw away the best practices we have spent a long time honing in what, to my eyes, is an act of machismo; a revolt against good engineering practices for the sake of revolting rather than to make the world a better place.
You're doing it wrong. Or are you?
"Here’s the thing about best practices: at the point at which you become sufficiently experienced, you understand why they are good and so can choose to not use them as the situation allows." I think this is a key point. You are not blindly following a practice because someone else says it is good to do so. You need to understand the practice and be able to evaluate it in a given context.
Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.
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"Here’s the thing about best practices: at the point at which you become sufficiently experienced, you understand why they are good and so can choose to not use them as the situation allows." I think this is a key point. You are not blindly following a practice because someone else says it is good to do so. You need to understand the practice and be able to evaluate it in a given context.
Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.
Very well stated, Mark. I wanted to make the same comment. If all you do is best practice, mediocrity is the best you can hope for.