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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by jcadam on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:24AM (#18959579)
> A lot of coding is simply banging your head against the wall, search SO over and over, changing things around, until it does what you want.

I don't find myself in these situations nearly as often as I did back when I was a junior engineer. But damn, I'm sure I looked busier (and more stressed out) back then.

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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by ams6110 on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:07PM (#18963625)
I was mostly through that phase of my career before any of those things were available. Toward the end of it, stack overflow had just launched. I mostly relied on printed books for help with languages and frameworks I was using.
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