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Which language or stack an engineer knows barely matters, because a good engineer picks up a new one in weeks.

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  1. Patrick McKenzie

    Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11

    In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.

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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

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