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Re:Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no ... by maxdemarzi on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:44PM (#1992868)
Go back to School.

Get a Master's degree in Computer Science if you are doubting your programming skills. Take or Audit a bunch of weird classes (in and out of the CS branch) and see if anything there interests you. Drink up (now that you can afford quality beer) and get laid.

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Re:Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no ... by jholman on Friday December 10, 2010 @03:11PM (#1992984)
Argh. Going to get a Master's is NOT a solution to doubting your programming skills! Professors cannot teach you how to write code, because they don't know themselves.

(Going to school may or may not be a great move... but not for this reason!)

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Re:Ask HN: Finally have loose change and spare time, but no ... by groaner on Friday December 10, 2010 @03:36PM (#1993077)
I did get a Master's. I don't think I did it properly though, since I went there because it felt like the right thing to do, not because I had some great interest to explore there.
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