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This is the exact opposite of my problem. If you ask me to use a list, I'll roll my own every time. Ask me to do anything, and I'll go to paper and try designing a data structure. Ask me to setup a web page and I'll probably start designing my own web protocols. :)

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do you have infinite time?

If you can't build something yourself, then you won't know how it works and what the consequences of the relevant design decisions are. I do it because my goal is to learn how to do things right, not to get things done quickly.

That's cool, and I indeed like to understand things too, but how do you deliver anything of value to a business if you start of designing a CPU? ;)

CPU? Your jumping all the vital underpinnings. What if the copper was of low quality or the silicon was a low grade? I'm in a cave rubbing sticks together to make fire.

What an absurdly high level of abstraction to begin with.

First, I create the universe.

Do you know how that sentence you wrote right there works? Did you create the English language?

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