Thoth on Nostr: This is also a piece of context people forget about software engineering. A lot of us ...

This is also a piece of context people forget about software engineering. A lot of us were able to get into this in no small part because it was free to do.

It is hard to be too precious about intellectual property when you are deeply indebted to those who were willing to freely share theirs.

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it is really hard to not hold this position whenever i was able to build a career for myself with absolutely zero education in the field. i didn't have to buy any books, pay for any classes. everything that i know was learned through free information that was accessible to me starting at the age 10

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