Most content is bullshit, including this comment.

For possibly the least bullshit content you'll ever read, I defer to HN user RobertoG's comment from ~2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792243

This blog post shoots itself in the foot with its conclusions:

> Realize that there's tons of misconception in the world. People and their solutions aren't flawless.

Therefore, any solution you come up with yourself is likely to be flawed and full of misconceptions. Might as well use someone else's code / misconceptions / flaws.

> Adapt solutions to your particular use case. <snip> Always analyze it before you decide to use it.

Who has time for that? We're all too busy being distracted by contentless-content. Or you could just say something like: it seemed appropriate at the time.

> Believe in yourself. Your solutions are not any worse than the ones on the internet.

This is the real kicker. My solutions probably aren't any better either. On the whole half of all people engaged in a profession or job-role are below average. You'd probably do just as well to outsource all of your decisions to either someone else or the crowd.

> Being a developer is about constant learning.

That's very idealistic. Maybe some / many people just want to go to work, do the minimum possible, and get home, and for a lot of people that's probably okay.

> People sometimes use libraries without a more profound understanding.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't at least part of the reason for using libraries that they abstract away the need to have a profound understanding of the topic?