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Advice/Approach for distilling homogenous code and building common code for a team
I work for the State of California. Our programming team in my opinion is not really a 'team' in that we usually work solo on projects throughout the application/systems complete life-cycle.
The end ...
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Resumes: Open-Source Projects, Reinventing the Wheel?
When writing a resume, should I be concerned that certain open source projects I've created might be a hindrance to me because they would be perceived as reinventing the wheel? I've created a few ...
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If a fluent coder disregards good practices, doesn't his fluency work against him?
I am working on a fairly large and buggy application - and due to the way it's written (I'll spare you details, but it violates rules in most areas you can think of), it is next to impossible ...
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Career strategy for those of us who *like* re-inventing wheels?
Yeah, I hear all the popular wisdom about not re-inventing the wheel. It may be allowed that making some tiny wheels from scratch is good practice for beginners, but generally in real life, we ...
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What counts as reinventing the wheel?
Do the following scenarios count as "reinventing the wheel" in your book?
A solution exists, but not in the language you want to use, and existing solutions can't be interfaced with the language you ...
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Is reinventing the wheel really all that bad?
Its common knowledge in programming that reinventing the wheel is bad or evil.
But why is that?
I am not suggesting that it's good. I believe it to be wrong. However, I once read an article that ...
