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		lincolnq on Nov 25, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mistakes I Made in My Programming Career Meh. Looks like this guy should've taken an intro software engineering course and read a little Joel Spolsky instead of taking 5 years to learn this.

selven on Nov 25, 2009 [–]

There's no substitute for experience. There's a difference between knowing that x,y and z are bad and understanding why they are bad from personal experience.

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