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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
I push myself now so I don't have to push my self later, I wish I had learned earlier on.
I have a high level of confidence that you will wish something completely different later on.

Trust me, you really don't want to set yourself up for a mindset of already having put in your effort and wishing to relax early. Ignoring resources now will only make you work harder to get to the same place others will be, and you will still have to "push" once you get there if you don't want to find yourself falling behind.

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People will disagree with my mentality especially engineers,...
You got that right.

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I always think that if you reinvent the wheel, chances of you doing it better is greater than just reusing it. If you just reuse it, you will never be able to improve it.
On the other hand, I think you got that part wrong. If you refuse to reuse it, you do not have the opportunity to make it better. You might eventually come up with something different that works better, but without building on earlier work you will find it takes a lot longer to succeed than if you had used the head start offered to you. In the meantime, others who did reuse it will likely already have improved on it before you get to that point.

I'm not belittling your goals. It's your plan for achieving them that I think needs some tweaking.