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Re:Being OK with not being extraordinary by arvinsim on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:55PM (#24268018)
Been wondering about this. I built my career on focusing on the technical aspects of programming only.

I feel that people who got domain knowledge were always better contributors even if their technical programming knowledge is not that great.

Been contemplating on getting a masters on an interesting field but current economic climate is still uncertain.

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Re:Being OK with not being extraordinary by divan on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:51AM (#24269356)
Programming is not about coding or knowing technical intricacies. It’s a two step process:

  1) understand the universe
  2) explain it to the three years old
Coding comes as a part of the second step, but domain knowledge is crucial for the first.
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