• villainy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Where’s

    Using Solutions that Already Exist

    No, seriously, you don’t have to build everything from scratch by yourself. Other people write code too.

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      4 hours ago

      Got caught in that trap at my first coding job. Made a sort formula and a sr dev asked my I didn’t just use the array.sort.

      My answer: I didn’t know it was there.

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      17 hours ago

      It’s a double-edged sword and understanding when to re-use and when to re-implement is an art that goes wrong more often than right.

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      Ah, the ever-elusive, mysterious stage in my process - the one I can’t ever seem to move much before the “planning” and at least “beginning to implement” stages, and sometimes stubbornly comes even later than that.