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		lnanek2 on July 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “A Dark Room” game open-sourced Reading code is a much better way for a developer to learn than reading articles IMO. Of course writing is even better...

eru on July 4, 2013 [–]

> Of course writing is even better...

I don't think you can compare. There are things you can only pick up from learning from other people (or re-inventing everything yourself), and there are other skills you have to develop yourself.

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