"All occupations have an associated body of knowledge that practitioners dip into when they need to complete certain tasks. Visit any lawyer's or accountant's o

"All occupations have an associated body of knowledge that practitioners dip into when they need to complete certain tasks. Visit any lawyer's or accountant's office and you'll find shelves filled with books that they use for reference." This analogy to the tech world is appropriate. My dad is a lawyer. Very rarely can I ask him a question he knows the answer to off hand, unless it's in his very narrow specialty and regarding the state he practices in. But he knows how to look stuff up and has a general knowledge with which to analyze legal matters. And he's a civil attorney; he pretty much can't answer criminal issues at all. I think programmers are a lot like this. If you want to grok the browser, you're going to lose. And that's not useful anymore anyhow.