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by bruce343434 1680 days ago
The greatest programming fallacy is blindly trusting someone else to have correctly invented "the wheel" before. Shockingly few people really know what they're doing.
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> Shockingly few people really know what they're doing.

Unfortunately that includes the people who think their NIH wheel will be much better than the existing one. In fact, the Dunning-Kruger effect would suggest that people who don't know what they're doing are disproportionately likely to be in the latter group.