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		pepperball 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my ... > Domain-specific knowledge, having no relation to software engineering per se, is a necessary skill set. In other words, you wasted time and energy becoming a programmer/software developer/whatever. Should have done something else.

QuiDortDine 15 days ago [–]

This is only true if you weren't paid for your work all those years (which, then, it was just a hobby).

But more importantly, this is only relevant for vomiting boilerplate code. I don't know about you but I always did a lot more than that.

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