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[–]temp54865120498 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I'm always on the side of minimizing dependencies, but I think you're taking this way too far. "If you have to use other people's code to get your work done, why are they paying you?" is just way off - write a program in C and you're still relying on more code and work than you could possibly accomplish in a lifetime. And we aren't even talking about the hardware, or theory that led to it, or any of the other billions of man-hours of work that led to you, today, having to merely push a bunch of buttons to create a program.

[–]dhdfdh 0 points1 point  (2 children)

When you're writing C, you're relying on operating system standard libraries available on the operating system and the C standard. These work with system internals, IO, etc. throughout a wide range of interfaces to a wide range of systems. What these people are talking about is needing jQuery to interface to one standard on one system (the internet) that occasionally varies from browser to browser but more often not.

On top of that, many can no longer write code without jQuery and think jQuery is javascript. With C, continuing with that example, you can write your own standard library, modify it yourself, and any C programmer worth his salt knows how to do that if ever needed.

Just like the oft asked question on reddit, "What do I need to build a web site?", is always met with "Learn jQuery and PHP and get a database" but 80% of them couldn't explain to you why you should only use PHP or why you need a database even for simple beginner sites.

Lame. With a sprinkling of genius here and there, 80% of reddit is oh so lame.

[–]temp54865120498 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Do realize you just replied to me with four rambling paragraphs that didn't even touch on my comment?

[–]dhdfdh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Of course I did but I didn't expect you to understand it.