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Opening Black Boxes
- ErrantX 17y agoI've always done this because of my background as an electronics/hardware hacker (where doing it is great fun :D). It surprised me when I finally started working at a place with professional programmers that so many just didn't do it at all with code.
- bensummers 17y agoI often find it's quicker to write a bit of code than try and work out how a library would work, then deal with installing it and maintaining that installation as it gets updated. Of course, this depends on how much of the library is needed.
- raintrees 17y agoAnd when I have looked, at first I was surprised to see ugly code, things remmed out, variables declared and never used, debug statements still in production code... Kind of shattered the whole "shrink-wrapped programmer on a pedestal" thing I had going...
- wglb 17y agoDupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=882397 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=882397. I thought hn code checked for dupes? Ah--the above link will be wrong when new blog entry gets posted.