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0 pointsthrowawaaarrgh2y ago0 comments

If the only programming you do is generic commercial work, you won't get very good, especially if it's at the same job or on the same kind of project.

You can learn more about programming by giving yourself new and challenging projects at home. Doing both personal and professional work is the fastest way to progress while learning lessons from both. (commercial work teaches you the "professional" side of software engineering, which has almost nothing to do with programming)

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monkeynotes2y ago

> If the only programming you do is generic commercial work

Congrats you've found an edge case.

I've spent my whole life working in "commercial" settings, I've learned everything doing that, and it's all programming. I really don't know which places you work at where a software engineer doesn't do programming. That's the whole job, 8hrs a day.

Fuck going home and slugging another 4hrs software, unless you have the energy in which case good for you, you can fast track.

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