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0 pointsUltimatt4y ago0 comments

The people groking things instantly and inhaling ideas are actually the ones who learned to learn, and everyone else just thinks they have because they put a lot of effort into broken practises of learning.

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someweirdperson4y ago· 1 in thread

There isn't much new to learn. It is mostly new wheels, but those are still wheels, just in a different box.

eternityforest4y ago

There is in.... basically anything but programming.

Programming is just the same wheels because when anything new happens, we call it math or comp sci or an algorithmic breakthrough or something.

Ever so often something new comes along in programming, but I don't really see a lot missing. Current languages are good.

Ecosystems and libraries have missing pieces, but I basically never code in Python and think "Oh I wish I had X", aside from more performance.

It's only very rarely I hear about a new concept in programming that's really exciting. Async/Await is probably the most recent thing I can think of.

cinntaile4y ago

I think this downplays the importance of innate intelligence and it is not something you compensate for by simply learning "the right way". It would be nice if it was like that though.

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