Thursday, May 29, 2014

NIH vs NISE

So companies have N.I.H. syndrome, "Not Invented Here", a reluctance to use pre-existing code from outside group. I certainly suffer from that sometimes, because coding things is fun, and generally my homebrew solutions are compact and focused and you can understand the codepath without having to know how it tries to solve 8 other dudes' problems as well. But sometimes I think my company suffers a bit from N.I.S.E...

Here's an article that kind of supports my view...

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