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iwontberudelast Saturday at 4:34 PM1 replyview on HN

I’m 37 year old wanting to unlearn computer science, let’s make a deal.


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dickstrawnglast Saturday at 9:28 PM

Yesssss the classic midlife Big O of Disillusionment. Don’t worry — unlearning computer science is only O(n²) if you try to forget recursion manually. Just start with garbage collecting your memories of pointers and work your way up to erasing all trace of Turing machines.