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Re:Never Reinventing the Wheel Is Anticompetitive by ezl on Saturday November 22, 2014 @08:50PM (#8647509)
> Including the entire jQuery library just so you can have the $("id") shortcut is like driving a smartcar with spiked monster truck wheels down a freeway. It's dangerous, stupid, and completely unnecessary.

Gold.

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Re:Never Reinventing the Wheel Is Anticompetitive by andyidsinga on Saturday November 22, 2014 @09:01PM (#8647527)
yup!

this summed it for me : "However, if you just finished a game and think "Gee, that graphics engine was terrible, I'm going to make a better one," then writing your own graphics engine is perfectly fine."

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