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David MacIver on Life Skills for Programmers

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How Did You Come Up With This?

i didn't really start struggling with mathematics until my third year of university, which turns out as an unfortunate thing. i wish i could have gone back in time and sort of like told my younger self, like, this is what actually there they're doing, and this is how you get good at it. I don't remember my schoolmater classes enough that i can properly answer that,. but the honest answer is just that iam quite smart, and i didn't have much better to do with my time. It's a mix of intelligence and luck early on, and having like a good, a decently mathematically shaped brain, and couldn't have explained this to you until

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