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		elliptic on Feb 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s This raises the question - are there fields in tech or software engineering that are mostly empirical or mostly conceptual?

z92 on Feb 17, 2014 [–]

mostly conceptual: Computer Science.

mostly empirical: Programming.

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