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by amne 788 days ago
I started catching myself saying something is "easy" and now try to say "it's a solved problem".

Most of dev work these days is actually plumbing hardwork found in libraries : serialization? solved. Handle HTTP requests? solved. DB modeling? solved.

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Sort algorithms and linked lists? Solved, but we keep interviewing on them anyway.