HACKER Q&A
📣 samstave

What were you once expert, but now you can hardly recall what you knew?


30 years in - there are various areas where I was the SME/expert on certain things, but if I were to be interviewed on them, I would sound completely like I never knew anything about it...

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What are some areas where you had intense focus, drive and knowledge, but years later - you can now barely speak as an authority on the subject?

"I've forgotten more about [subject] than you would ever know] trope


  👤 metaloha Accepted Answer ✓
PHP for sure - used it for years, wrote multiple frameworks for various things, then migrated to JavaScript and the front-end and now I can barely remember how to write PHP :(

👤 gladiatr72
M$/PC/IBM DOS memory management driver configuration

👤 superchroma
Probably more esoteric WPF stuff like bundling image resources in the DLL and defining control templates. I mainly remember how fiddly it all was.

👤 tempxyz
Music I suppose. High school phase.