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Re:Career advice for young system programmers by mcguire on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:03PM (#37182751)
The are many, many gigabytes of good information available on the Internet. The problem is that they're mixed in with many, many terabytes of not-so-good information.

Finding out which is which, when left as an exercise to the reader, is not terribly efficient.

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Re:Career advice for young system programmers by sph on Saturday August 19, 2023 @04:15AM (#37186666)
So the real skill to learn is how to efficiently seek information and do research online.

If you know how to do that, with some effort you can learn everything you want (in CS). I know I've done iy.

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