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And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.

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[Above a bar graph:]
11th-grade activities:
[The y-axis is labeled:]
Usefulness to career success
[Above the x-axis are two small bars and one huge bar. Below the x-axis, each bar is labeled:]
900 hours of classes
400 hours of homework
One weekend messing with Perl

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Bah!!! Beginners numbers...

I'll have you know I barely passed typing class on one of those IBM ball electric typewriters at 31wpm.

On the IBM computers with word perfect 5.1 from the 5.25' floppy. I was much faster... 32wpm.

Then I got ulnar nerve damage from a terrible bicycle accident in Europe aka.. I fell off.. and now I average 20wpm.