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> I did a sloppy job of gathering some of them in this post (in no particular order) with even sloppier short explanations I wonder why developers tend to be s
by bryancoxwell 3y ago
> I did a sloppy job of gathering some of them in this post (in no particular order) with even sloppier short explanations
I wonder why developers tend to be so self deprecating
- wongarsu 3y agoI assume it's just that being self-deprecating or humble correlates with many traits that make you a good developer, so people with those traits are more likely to end up in this career path and stick around in it. Just like being a sales person doesn't automatically make you overconfident, but being overconfident makes you a good sales person.
- tyre 3y agoI think it’s in part a preemptive defense against the endless nitpicking from their audience.
- camel-cdr 3y agoYeah, I think it's this. IIRC one of the first places it was posted is on the C_Programming reddit, where the bar for "lesser known" is quite high.
- badtension 3y agoBeing afraid of failure and the impostor syndrome. You mark the territory and lower the expectations to look better in the end (even if only in your own eyes). A ton of people do it, it's hard to get out of it.
- dmvdoug 3y agoThe earlier comments were so cynical I felt like I needed to offer another possibility: maybe they set out to do this in a more systematic way, then got so deep in the weeds they realized it would take them forever to put it into more systematic form, but they didn’t want to just leave it sitting there sight unseen. So they acknowledge it’s sloppier than they would like it to be, but hey, at least it’s something. That’s not really self deprecating so much as just… being transparent?
- bmacho 3y agoFor me it is what its written there: doing a less than satisfactory job, and not wanting to do it correctly.