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Re:It's not too late to learn how to code by HeyItsDiogenes on Monday October 17, 2011 @05:51AM (#3119842)
As good as it is to learn to code, much as is the case with any situation where you'd normally hire a professional (doctor, lawyer, accountant) don't kid yourself that you know everything once you can sling some code.

A good example would be how terrible the code the Google Founders wrote. Their initial engineering hires had to rewrite everything from scratch.

And the Google Founders did have a background that would lend well to coding.

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Re:It's not too late to learn how to code by ebaysucks on Monday October 17, 2011 @12:47PM (#3121251)
A lot of web apps are very basic from a development point of view.

Sure you need a doctor if you are very ill, but plenty of people can self-diagnose smaller problems using the internet.

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