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Re:Never write your own date parsing library by bdhcuidbebe on Saturday July 26, 2025 @03:56AM (#44692272)
> i don't want to pay my employees to learn

Then how do you expect them to learn?

Good luck getting more blood out of that stone, smh.

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Re:Never write your own date parsing library by Latty on Saturday July 26, 2025 @05:23AM (#44692671)
Let's be a little charitable and assume they mean just learn. There are hard tasks you can learn from that also provide something you can't just get off the shelf, rather than just reimplementing the wheel.
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