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		bdhcuidbebe 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Never write your own date parsing library > i don't want to pay my employees to learn Then how do you expect them to learn? Good luck getting more blood out of that stone, smh.

Latty 7 months ago [–]

Let's be a little charitable and assume they mean just learn. There are hard tasks you can learn from that also provide something you can't just get off the shelf, rather than just reimplementing the wheel.

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