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by fatnoah 774 days ago
There's a meta-question which is "if you did should you have been doing what you were doing?"

Also a great question. As a manager, my first question would be to ask why a library wasn't used for algorithm X.

In grad school, I wrote a complete implementation of Rijndael encryption for a crypto class, but I would never expect (or want) anyone to try to build that themselves for production software.