oakwood

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   by oakwood 11y ago

   Terribly written article. This guys lives in an academic cave.
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   by oakwood 11y ago

   If I can offer another angle: I'm not a full-time programmer and never was, but I code in a number of languages to support my real day-job (finance). I'm getting close to 50 and I feel the value of my coding skills only increases
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   by oakwood 11y ago

   Why? This is actually a really interesting question - especially given the HackerNews readership - so much of today's code production is for vapor ware I.e. Here today, forgotten tomorrow. There is some value in understanding what lead