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berrynice on July 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught develop...

I disagree greatly, I find that the things you need to know you can often just learn on the job.

ska on July 23, 2019 [–]

In this context we are talking precisely about the things that you cannot learn that way (at least, not efficiently).

It's obviously true that you don't need to know these things to perform your current job, but that's not what the OP was talking about.

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