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That's a systemic flaw, not a justification for redundancy.
by abbasmehdi 16y ago
That's a systemic flaw, not a justification for redundancy.
- KeithMajhor 16y agoFrom the perspective of an individual, fixing a systemic flaw is going to take much longer than just operating within it. There are cases where "reinventing the wheel" is just the best way to go.
- abbasmehdi 16y agoYea, true.
- spc476 16y agoSo I guess writing a DNS resolving library wasn't justified, even though it dropped the memory footprint from 15M (when using C-Ares) to 400k (a bit more information about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2324428 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2324428)
- abbasmehdi 16y agoReinventing the wheel, not making a better wheel.