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Creating a lighter, faster wheel that only works with sort of cart your company builds might invite accusations of “reinventing the wheel” but often it’s just “doing engineering”
(I am a wheel reinventor btw)
The color contrast of the site, especially the background color and the font thickness (on android phone at least) is not good. Many visually impaired people would have very difficult time reading the content.
I am a wheel re-inventor. Nice article. The _Specificity_ reason listed is usually the driving factor for me, with the others being downstream effects. In short, the wheels are often built for a different chassis than the one I'm using. Adapting these may be more difficult than making a new wheel.
Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who have invested in it, so disrupting it can be met with fierce resistance. When I tell people that file systems are antiquated and need to be replaced with something much better; I often get strong push back. This is a wheel that I have been reinventing for some ti…
This is a terribly simplistic take. To start off, it ignores the fact that major rewrites are known for failing.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
It also does not help that the only item you could come up to include in your risk matrix is... Someone else's bad will? Absurdly short-sighted.
For large, complex systems with multiple developers this approach rarely works.
Creating a lighter, faster wheel that only works with sort of cart your company builds might invite accusations of “reinventing the wheel” but often it’s just “doing engineering”
But when you need other people to work with your wheel it's much harder to find those capable enough/that want to deal with that. Also when shit hits the fan and the wheel reinventor left the company you're gonna wish you had a standard wheel. (I am a wheel reinventor btw)
The color contrast of the site, especially the background color and the font thickness (on android phone at least) is not good. Many visually impaired people would have very difficult time reading the content.
Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who have invested in it, so disrupting it can be met with fierce resistance. When I tell people that file systems are antiquated and need to be replaced with something much better; I often get strong push back. This is a wheel that I have been reinventing for some ti…
Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who have invested in it, so disrupting it can be met with fierce resistance. When I tell people that file systems are antiquated and need to be replaced with something much better; I often get strong push back. This is a wheel that I have been reinventing for some ti…
Missing point: only reinvent the wheel when you control all the wheels For large, complex systems with multiple developers this approach rarely works.