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> And this is with just one day of work! Simply amazing! Man, real imposter syndrome creeping in after reading this. I can barely get anything done re: program
by tentacleuno 5y ago
> And this is with just one day of work! Simply amazing!
Man, real imposter syndrome creeping in after reading this. I can barely get anything done re: programming, and this guy's ported Wine to a totally foreign OS.
- viraptor 5y agoKeep the selection bias in mind. Sure, there are amazing engineers like that and we get to know that due to the internet. Let's celebrate that and acknowledge that they're extremely rare.
- bonzini 5y agoYou also rarely learn of the failures of the great engineers. They experience failure just like everyone else.
- jerrre 5y agoThere's even one other selection bias at play here. This might well be one of the most productive days of them that we're reading about. Not their average output per se.
- Inhibit 5y agoTo be fair to the other end of the spectrum they might be crap at sanitizing Excel spreadsheets and automatically databasing the contained information. Not as sexy, but maybe not less useful.
- grishka 5y agoThis makes me feel ashamed of my unending troubles focusing on doing something useful, instead procrastinating way too much.