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Re:Ask YC: Company Blogs by Hexstream on Monday February 18, 2008 @05:57PM (#118476)
I contest. Sayings will only get you so far.

Would you disagree that plenty of smart developers create and plenty of good developers reuse?

Re:Ask YC: Company Blogs by airhadoken on Monday February 18, 2008 @06:08PM (#118485)
GPP's phrasing seems to be non-mutex such that it explicitly does not say that, e.g. "smart developers do not create"

Maybe a more encompassing way of stating the saw would be "while a good developer can create what is required, a smart developer will use what is provided"

Re:Ask YC: Company Blogs by pchristensen on Monday February 18, 2008 @07:19PM (#118517)
All saying aside, this guy isn't even sure he wants to blog. Unless he's selling blogging software, his time would be better spent working on his product, marketing, etc instead of rolling his own blogging software.

Wordpress is so easy to setup that it's probably taking me longer to write this comment than it would be for him to setup Wordpress.

Re:Ask YC: Company Blogs by dkokelley on Monday February 18, 2008 @07:01PM (#118505)
He's saying "Don't reinvent the wheel."

Use what's available when you can, as it will save you time and money. Make what is not available already.