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    1. Marc Brooker‏ @MarcJBrooker Apr 26
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      Marc Brooker Retweeted Marco Arment

      This silly attitude is the number one thing holding software back. "Not invented here", so we need to build everything from first principles. The problem is that means there's no progress. The dishonesty is that people only believe this that at their chosen level of abstraction.https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1254464996018446338 …

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      One of the greatest fallacies in modern software development is how much everyone seems to completely ignore the time, complexity, risks, and long-term maintenance costs of adding so much third-party code and infrastructure to everything.
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    2. Marc Brooker‏ @MarcJBrooker Apr 26
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      Understand your tools and dependencies, absolutely. Pick carefully, for sure. But use the toolkit. Don't get stuck in some moment in the past when you think software was perfect.

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    3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc Apr 26
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      Replying to @MarcJBrooker

      Hmmmm, by first instinct goes the other way. NIH is dumb, but so is relying on a dependency without a close relationship (ideally strong code contributor level). Of the two options, I'd err on the side of not pulling in a dependency.

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    4. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc Apr 26
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      In particular the pattern of using a dependency to move quickly, but not being remotely prepared for a serious security or stability issue in that dependency, is too prevalent to ignore.

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    5. Marc Brooker‏ @MarcJBrooker Apr 26
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      Sure, you need to be willing to maintain your dependencies, but both the open source model (take part in community) and commercial model (pay a vendor) generally have benefits over building everything yourself.

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      That's because they share the burden of both recurring and non-recurring engineering. That reduces overall costs for the whole economy.

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      Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc Apr 26
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      Only when incentives are aligned. I think this is why depending on a web service is much much much better than depending on vended software. The services vendor has their own skin in the game for security and stability. Not as much with software in a box.

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        1. Marc Brooker‏ @MarcJBrooker Apr 26
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          Right, I'd agree with all that. But the solution is finding models with good incentives, not reinventing everything from the ground up over and over and over. (FWIW, I'm also in favor of reinventing, but only with a clear goal, not just retreading the same ground).

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