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wrsyesterday at 8:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Well, pixels on a screen are a totally different mindset from network protocols or program control flow, but nobody’s surprised when one person can work within all of those. Brains are big. So yeah, it’s just a matter of degree. (It’s the T-shaped vs I-shaped career thing.)


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agumonkeyyesterday at 9:35 PM

at least to me, I could learn most layers in a computer without choking completely. whenever i tried reading radio engineering i was drowning right away