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In addition to learing whatever technical skills you're currently learning, you need to learn how those skills are actually used in the real world (if you're planning a professional career and not just a hobby). I don't know Cerulean, but my take is that he has the bottom-line outlook for the current level of technology that makes him a valuable employee. Thirty years ago C++ and the STL or Python, or whatever, could not be put on the machines of the day. There weren't enough resources affordable to do it. Today you cannot afford to do otherwise. I see people claiming that they'll do nothing but write in assembler. An absolutely MINISCULE number of programmers, percentage-wise, will be paid to write assembly code. A coder can write a given number of working lines of code in a day, more or less, regardless of the language. The number of lines in a high level language produces an order of magnitude more running code than the same number of lines in a low level language. Put yourself in the position of the guy with the wallet who wants to add money, not throw it away, and lay your plans accordingly.
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