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But but but ... we're not supposed to reinvent the wheel! We're supposed to find some existing product/code base, no matter how marginally related it is to wha
by spc476 17y ago
But but but ... we're not supposed to reinvent the wheel! We're supposed to find some existing product/code base, no matter how marginally related it is to what we want to do, improve that, and hand it back to the community!
I've been told over and over again, don't write code that already exists! You're wasting your time!
- stevejohnson 17y agoYou're missing the point of the article. He's talking about products that are presumably closed-source, and the only way to improve them would be to get a job at someone else's company. If you want to encourage code sharing, build it better and make it open.