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daemin on July 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Developer's Dystopian Future

So your boss is basically telling you to learn all of these things so that you will remain a cog in the machine. Like running really fast trying to move ahead, but really you're just on the treadmill and staying in the same place.

pling on July 7, 2014 [–]

That's a great way of putting it. It's exactly where I feel I an now.

I wish I did C more often. Most of that knowledge has longevity.

dwd on July 7, 2014 | [–]

My first website made CGI calls to an API written in C. 17 years later, I'm using the same basic model, except with Go.

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