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Ask HN: What were you once expert, but now you can hardly recall what you knew?
30 years in - there are various areas where I was the SME/expert on certain things, but if I were to be interviewed on them, I would sound completely like I never knew anything about it...
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What are some areas where you had intense focus, drive and knowledge, but years later - you can now barely speak as an authority on the subject?
"I've forgotten more about [subject] than you would ever know] trope
- tempxyz 4y agoMusic I suppose. High school phase.
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- gladiatr72 4y agoM$/PC/IBM DOS memory management driver configuration
- superchroma 4y agoProbably more esoteric WPF stuff like bundling image resources in the DLL and defining control templates. I mainly remember how fiddly it all was.
- metaloha 4y agoPHP for sure - used it for years, wrote multiple frameworks for various things, then migrated to JavaScript and the front-end and now I can barely remember how to write PHP :(
- vietvu 4y agoSame, I used to work solely on PHP in 2015-2016, with high load API and Wordpress. But now? PHP is like an alien language.