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by agumonkey 1904 days ago
Sure you forget but if you come into a fluid dynamic problem, you know that the universe didn't move to a new paradigm, I assume it's a different feeling to know that you can revisit the knowledge instead of navigating a totally new structure.
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Do you feel the fundamental precepts of programming don’t generally hold true regardless of the application of the technology?
if you spend your days design algorithms yeah but if you assemble vue or angular components I think it's much different.
I’ve found Engineering to be similar. A relatively small percentage of engineers are actually crunching numbers in the academic sense. Most of the work is around learning a limited number of tools that may not translate effectively into another position