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rimmjob on June 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Advice for a young, self-taught programmer

you are light years ahead of everybody else. you could fall asleep for 5 years and you'd still be ahead.

koko775 on June 13, 2011 [–]

As someone who started writing HTML in early elementary school, that's a terrible thing to say, IMO. My biggest programming-related anxiety while growing up was that I would stop learning.

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