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On bad advice

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Like many programmers, I'm largely self-taught. I've rarely worked with anyone more experienced than myself, especially early in my career where I spent a lot of time working with other 20-something-year-olds who also had only a few years of experience. So we all learned about how to program from advice we found on the internet, especially posts that were shared via sites like reddit and hacker news.

This post is part of a series, starting at Reflections on a decade of coding . Like many programmers, I'm largely self-taught. I've rarely worked with anyone more experienced than myself, especially early in my career where I spent a lot of time working with other 20-something-year-olds who also had only a few years of experience. So we all learned about how to program from advice we found on the internet, especially posts that were shared via sites like reddit and hacker news. Much of my progress since then has been unlearning all those things. In hindsight, most of the writing and discussion

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