You want to spend your day solving problems. OK cool. Which ones? All of them?
In terms of work efficiency, you generally want to focus quite tightly on a specific part of the solution space. The part which adds value and is novel or advances the state of the art.
Everything else is fodder for judicious library use, outsourcing to third-party services, and occasionally recipes or gists.
Google is just the user-interface for code re-use in 2013.
On the other hand, recreationally, why yes I do enjoy inventing a better wheel from time to time :)
In terms of work efficiency, you generally want to focus quite tightly on a specific part of the solution space. The part which adds value and is novel or advances the state of the art.
Everything else is fodder for judicious library use, outsourcing to third-party services, and occasionally recipes or gists.
Google is just the user-interface for code re-use in 2013.
On the other hand, recreationally, why yes I do enjoy inventing a better wheel from time to time :)