How open-source made me a better developer

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Describes roughly 20 years of open-source experience and argues practicing real-world projects beats puzzle sites, citing 10,000 hours to proficiency and personal evidence of 180,000 reputation on Stack Overflow. Explains concrete skills gained: async written communication (commit messages, bug reports, reviews), breaking big problems into smaller components, and handling diverse platform constraints. Shows a Spring MVC code inspection that proves GET multi-map parameters never worked and records submitting a documentation patch to fix it.

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2. 9:00Communication
3. 23:06Teamwork
4. 26:01Contact Details

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