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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by kd5bjo on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:06PM (#16915012)
That depends on whether or not the job entails inventing new kinds of wheel.
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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by gaius on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:40PM (#16915884)
Let's be honest: most commercial programming jobs don't. And the person with a thorough working knowledge of the standard libraries is in a better position to do it anyway.
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