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feralchimp on Feb 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist

> The downside to being a hybrid coder/designer is that you never really have a deep understanding of stuff like memory and architecture

Not until you bother to understand them.

tomkin on Feb 10, 2012 [–]

I see what you're saying. But I can flip that back at you and say that if you don't do your own design, you didn't bother to understand Photoshop or fundamentals of UI/UX.

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