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Discussion on: The one piece of advice I'd give to anyone who is starting out as a software engineer

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Aidas Petryla

I do agree with building a house bottom-up. However, a more interesting question might be: what if you're facing an opportunity where you lack the fundamentals? What's possible to do then to succeed? (Just to give an example (but let's not stick to it), you with your friends saw a business opportunity, but you lack some fundamentals).

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dennisko762

Yeah very interesting question. I can think of many scenarios. Say we have people who are techies but are not super deep in their subject. If I was them I would either think of finding people who have that know how, or I would do it myself in a "learning by doing" way. So while I build my startup or whatever, I would actually learn what I need to build it.

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Aidas Petryla

Yeah, that's exactly where I am right now. Have some ideas with other people to build something, but don't really have experience myself, so I'm learning as I do it. And if I hit the wall and have an idea who could advice me, then I go ask.

Alternatively, one could advice to hold the horses and gain that experience before the big bite, but that'd sound like a missed opportunity to me. From my experience, real world conditions are rarely the "ideal" ones, so I'm interested how we still can get things done with what we have. :)

Thanks for the response, looking forward to hear more from You in the future! :)