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Re:Coding without Google by sklogic on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:17PM (#11779709)
The funny part here is that in many cases it is still far easier to build stuff from scratch than to glue someone else's poorly documented shit together.
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Re:Coding without Google by sbov on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:52PM (#11780047)
Yes. So many libraries are engineered to solve everyone's problems, you can spend hours, or days, figuring out if it is engineered to solve your problem. It's like searching for a needle in a haystack you aren't sure has your needle.
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Re:Coding without Google by geophile on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:11PM (#11780659)
EXACTLY. In a previous HN comment I ranted about this exact topic. My threshold for adapting something very general to my specific case is now much lower than it had been.
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