Why the force should not always be with you
1.9.2016
Translation: machine translated
Routine and well-rehearsed processes are great things. But routine and convenience are the enemies of innovation. How do you fight back? The engineering teams at Digitec Galaxus fight against the power of habit with manifestos. The best thing is that the findings and principles not only help with programming. Part 1: Appreciate variation!
Not to mention sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, water treatment and universal health insurance: What, I ask you, have the Romans ever done for us?
This is a very striking example of hostility to innovation. But beware, it's not always so obvious. The following example shows this.
Beware of the power of habit
Like the involuntary helpers in this experiment, we humans often find it difficult to question the status quo and the prevailing mores. How nice would it be if we could pick up and devour the banana without prejudice?
The first point of our manifesto is therefore: Appreciate variation
Learning means change, knowledge is power, and we gain knowledge through learning: We want to learn and when we receive criticism of our code - nobody is perfect - be grateful for the chance to become an even better developer. Code reviews should therefore not make us uncomfortable. Other opinions and perspectives can always add value.
New tools can also bring us considerable benefits, although we have to get used to them first. For example, it was an indescribable moment for me when I was recently able to restore a Git commit (there really were a lot of changes) that had been lost - with SVN this would have been impossible.
Here are a few suggestions
At the end
Tim Csitkovics
Software Engineer
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