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I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actually do? Thank you to YouTube for sponsoring this video! htt...
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Comment by Bradlee Sargent on December 28, 2018 at 3:32pm
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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