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Re:Some popular self help books by fortran77 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:36AM (#23811632)
I like "The Rust Programming Language" by Steve Kablink. It really changed my life. And it's free. (We should put this book in hotel rooms.)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

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> Continual upskilling is critical for accelerating your career progression. However, the time constraint that corporate employment entail tends to spare limited time for you to improve your skillset.

Who writes like this? "Upskilling?" C'mon

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Re:Some popular self help books by gmargaritis on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:39AM (#23811663)
In what way did it change your life ?
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Re:Some popular self help books by fortran77 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:43AM (#23811700)
Realizing that the programming language and compiler can take care of many of the bugs and problems that plague programmers.
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Re:Some popular self help books by komali2 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:45AM (#23811722)
I don't really feel like this falls under the "self help" category of books, which imo are more generalist.
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Re:Some popular self help books by braythwayt on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:44AM (#23811717)
Coming from FORTRAN77, that is indeed quite a leap!
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Re:Some popular self help books by nxpnsv on Sunday July 12, 2020 @12:02PM (#23812306)
It sure beats fortran77.
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