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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a young, self-taught programmer by rimmjob on Monday June 13, 2011 @02:15AM (#2648293)
you are light years ahead of everybody else. you could fall asleep for 5 years and you'd still be ahead.
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Re:Ask HN: Advice for a young, self-taught programmer by koko775 on Monday June 13, 2011 @02:58AM (#2648337)
As someone who started writing HTML in early elementary school, that's a terrible thing to say, IMO. My biggest programming-related anxiety while growing up was that I would stop learning.
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