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by dylan604 856 days ago
So for those of us that consider this dead simple, can we just start adding CSS Ph.D on our CVs?
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chihuahua 856 days ago
No, you also have to throw away 3-6 years of your life.
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dylan604 855 days ago
I don't know about that. I'm not a UI person, yet I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on CSS. I actually like it. So when I'm sick and tired of programming things, I've found myself recreating the layout of some site I liked by writing the CSS/HTML by hand. You learn pretty quick that way. It's a shame that all UI is now only allowed to be done with some library or other.
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chihuahua 855 days ago
I was referring to the observation that getting a Ph.D. usually requires wasting 3-6 years of your life doing something tedious and useless (source: my time getting a Ph.D. in computer science)
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deathanatos 855 days ago
Those years were called "IE 6"
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dylan604 855 days ago
was it only 6 years? felt like 20. surely it didn't qualify for early release for good behavior
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deathanatos 852 days ago
My comment was partly tongue in cheek.

It did feel like 20 years, though.

According to Wikipedia, it was initially released in 2001 … which … seems later than I remember? I don't remember upgrading to it, but I guess Win 98 came with IE 5? But +20 years would be 2021 so … I guess it wasn't quite. I was using Firefox by at least 2006, maybe 2007 at the latest.

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