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I would say that for the first 10 years of my programming career I was not competent. The next 5, I was marginally competent.

I like this essay on the topic:

http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html




Yes, this! I've been doing software development as a job in some form or other for nearly 20 years, and I finally feel like I've really started to get the hang of it over the last couple of years ~wry grin~


I'm the lead data scientist in a corporation and only recently have I realized just how much I don't know. Give me another decade and hopefully I'll have learned most of those things.




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