Everyone has some pivotal moment in their career that propels their career in a positive direction. If you are a programmer or software engineer, what was that pivotal moment that made your skills increase in folds?
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The web. In the 90s I made myself 'the web guy' in the software company I worked for just by getting on it at home and playing with what tools there were.