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		gopher_space 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to wor... “This person is incurious” would be more apt but also more likely to apply to everyone else in the room too. Didn’t Bruce Lee famously say he fears the man who’s authored one API in ten thousand different contexts?

xarope 30 days ago [–]

for context, he was referring to a physical methodology, which requires a lot of training and knowledge of usage application.

As analogy, I don't think you'd treat "using API XYZ 10,000 times" the same as "serving an ace in tennis, 10,000" times.

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