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What does it mean to not reinvent the wheel?
informal. : to waste time trying to do something that has already been done successfully by someone else.
Why reinvent the wheel is bad?
It takes a lot of time to do the reinventing. It takes even more time to document what you have invented. You cannot hire people who already understand what you have invented. It is all too easy to reinvent something badly, causing ongoing costs for the problems caused by the bad design.
Who said you don’t have to reinvent the wheel?
Chuck Close – You don’t have to reinvent the wheel every…
How do you reinvent a wheel?
to waste time learning how to do something when it is already known how to do it: We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to hire someone who already knows how to make the system work.
What does the idiom have to reinvent the wheel?
Reinvent the wheel is an idiom that may not be as old as you think. To reinvent the wheel means to waste one’s time working on creating something that has already been created by someone else, or trying to solve a problem that has already been solved by someone else.
What is a wheel in programming?
A code wheel is a type of copy protection used on older computer games, often those published in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Where did the phrase reinvent the wheel come from?
Most often, the idiom is used as an admonishment against wasting time and effort. The term reinvent the wheel dates back to the 1970s, and was often used as a business and advertising metaphor. Related phrases are reinvents the wheel, reinvented the wheel, reinventing the wheel.
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