• @[email protected]
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    212 days ago

    Contributing to big project can earn you more recognition than doing little project from scratch.
    You know JS ? Contribute to some libs.
    Found a bug in chrome ? Report the bug, learn a bit of C++, and submit a patch to fix it.

    • adr1an
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      51 day ago

      Cyou count to 100? Learn quantum physics, compute the odds for each ball, and win the lottery. Easy peasy. I don’t know why these kids can’t thrive here in the future.

      /s

      In all seriousness, learning c++ or any language is good advice but it may only be easy or even possible if you have a certain background of concepts. We tend to overlook those, and remember achieving a certain skill without the full picture

      • @[email protected]
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        111 hours ago

        I contributed a feature to the .NET JIT without knowing C++.
        I really dont know C++, I have at most wrote 300 lines while following a tutorial 6 years ago.