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by fennecfoxen 4567 days ago
Yeah, a CS degree isn't suuuper-helpful for organizing a coherent program around a snazzy framework for the latest web technologies. It's for when you need to do something like, oh, "figure out how to upgrade the work-management system so you can move from coarse-grained lock system to a finer-grained lock system with zero downtime." Then you think back to your old courses covering Parallelism and the like, and plan it out.