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lol I know right, just enough knowledge to be dangerous...

that may come off as mean/rude towards the author, but I don't mean it so. I do shit like this all the time because I don't know every little trick with the languages/frameworks I'm using, it's impossible to know it all unfortunately.

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I think the key point is that it is 'impossible to know it all'

I don't think I have ever looked at code I have written more than a few months ago and NOT found a bunch of things I could have done much simpler if I had just known about some feature or trick. I have stopped feeling bad when that happens; now, I figure that the day I stop experiencing that is the day I am no longer getting better as a programmer.

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