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A comment on Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?.

Re:Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software de... by minus1 on Friday July 16, 2010 @02:26PM (#1521999)
I'm really just a mediocre programmer with really good domain knowledge

I know the feeling. I've struggled with this. Here's the conclusion I've come to: you don't need to be a great programmer to make great products.

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Re:Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software de... by minus1 on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @09:50AM (#1535158)
And I'm assuming that your definition of mediocre is actually "not as good as my idols". This seems common on HN. I've always been a top performer among my coworkers, but it's easy to ignore this and compare yourself only to those most successful.
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