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		dfranke on April 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What skills do self-taught programmers commonly la... I thought "category theory" was a very strange thing to include in the list, so I searched down and found this equally strange comment: "I wish I had time to spend a year learning category theory to better understand how to structure things to be compositional". This is akin to saying, "I wish I had time to spend a year studying fluid dynamics so I can learn how to fly a plane".

burgerbrain on April 5, 2011 [–]

More like: "so I could learn how to make a plane"

bluekeybox on April 5, 2011 | [–]

Exactly. The pilot is the user, get it?

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