More precisely, it is to spend an incredible amount of money, time and mental effort to finally come to a solution that was actually figured out decades or even centuries ago.
Bonus points if you end up making yet another app using the blockchain, so that in order for you to use it, you need to put your SSN on a distributed public ledger so that it can get pwned by Russian hackers.
“Ok so like basically we get people to pool their money together into one thing and then invest that thing into Bitcoin and use the profits from that investment to pay everyone involved once a month, and then when someone dies their portion of the investment goes to the other participants.”
Common code or jargon for copying someone else's work and claiming it as your own.
Frequently used in the military, even for the most mundane of tasks.
Especially applicable when the search to copy someone else's work requires more work than actually doing the work yourself.
1. If you've already done the work, there's no need to reinvent the wheel, just send me a copy of yours.
2. I'm sure I could do this, but why should I, there's no need to reinvent the wheel.
3. Whenever you copy and paste a request, remember to include that you don't want to reinvent the wheel.
1st Base- Kissing, even peck (yes you went to first base with gam gam)
2nd Base- Boobs stuff
3rd Base- Below the belt action
4th Base- The grand Slam
69th Base- ;)
Starting something over completely from scratch when there is already something prepared. Often done unnecessarily and for the purpose of taking full credit.