Also, please do not confuse abstraction with reuse. "abstracting things" has not...

		itripn on July 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What did I do so wrong in this coding inte... Also, please do not confuse abstraction with reuse. "abstracting things" has nothing to do with "making them from scratch". You're definitely conflating two things inappropriately there. I can write reusable code that has absolutely no abstraction in it, and I can write code based on an abstraction that is completely un-re-usable.

Arguably, the conflating of those ideas would speak to his readiness for a senior role.