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I’ve never written a SO post, and barely have a github profile.

I’ve been coding since the 80s.

Some people don’t live on social networking - and that is, after all, exactly what those sites are.

I'm always writing there as it's the only platform where you have 80-90% chances of getting a reply within minutes. Docker, Kubernetes, Go, Elixir etc. were not here in the 80s.

You cannot learn new things without asking questions.

I find that most questions have been answered already. Unless one is doing cutting edge research, somebody has almost always had the same problem I'm having before, and written about it, and some guru has written a five page response on SO that breaks it down in detail and I don't have to ask...

Dig into the source code / play around. Spend all of your time asking questions you will never learn anything or do anything.

That's how I learned.

damn kids and their internets.

;)

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