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Whatever happened to home construction? In the old days I chopped down my own trees to form into straight boards for the frame, dig up my own rock to make a foundation, mine my own iron to be formed into nails, etc... Now I just buy all the pieces I need from the hardware store and piece them together to build a house.

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Funny comment :)

But serious: there is nobody stopping you from cutting down a tree to build a house. I think this also applies to programming. At home I am putting hours in programing my own stuff, stuff that is done before and available in libraries. I want to re-invent the wheel just to know how it is done.

At work it's all about cost. You don't have time to re-invent the wheel.

We can still play Minecraft.

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