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marknutter on Feb 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye to academic research

When I graduated with my degree in physics, I was introduced to something called Ruby on Rails, and instead of go on to grad school I pivoted into the life of a web developer. Best thing that ever happened to me.

mhartl on Feb 18, 2011 [–]

I did go to physics grad school, but eventually I came around. :-) http://railstutorial.org/book#author

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