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Re:How I learned to program by bigtunacan on Monday September 12, 2016 @08:13PM (#12484783)
I'm quite surprised by this since most programming jobs will involve solving problems you don't know how to solve on a regular basis. Reading, whether it's books, blogs, Stack Overflow are ways to help you solve problems.

If you are a JavaScript programmer and spend the work day reading about Elixir; that is a problem. It likely doesn't apply to work so that should be on your own time.

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Re:How I learned to program by clifanatic on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:53AM (#12488203)
> since most programming jobs will involve solving problems you don't know how to solve on a regular basis

Yes, you'd think that would be blindingly, painfully obvious to anybody with the cognitive ability to tie their own shoe laces. And it probably is, to everybody except the MBA "efficiency experts" that are taking over my profession.

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