Re:Resumes are dangerous?
by swiftcoder on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:58AM
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> like the person reinventing the wheel where a well known library could have been used
This is a particularly shitty signal to my mind. Half the reason to experiment with writing software outside of work is to reinvent the wheel and see what shakes out - you'll almost never have the opportunity to do that at work, and if nobody ever does that, we never discover better ways of developing software.
Re:Resumes are dangerous?
by chipsa on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:49PM
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I think it's a difference between: "reinventing the wheel because I didn't know better", and "reinventing the wheel because I feel like trying to make it better". There's usually a distinct difference in how the code shakes out between the two.
This is a particularly shitty signal to my mind. Half the reason to experiment with writing software outside of work is to reinvent the wheel and see what shakes out - you'll almost never have the opportunity to do that at work, and if nobody ever does that, we never discover better ways of developing software.