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Viliam comments on Confession Thread: Mistakes as an aspiring rationalist - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam 04 June 2015 10:40:22AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, being the big fish can give you great opportunity for autonomous growth, because there is no one to revise all your decisions. Or a great opportunity to sleep on your laurels. Different people will use the same opportunity very differently.

Re: JavaScript.

It has essentially two parts: the language itself (objects, functions), and the browser-specific stuff (DOM). My advice is to learn the language itself well, but use JQuery for everything DOM-related.