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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eb0la on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:14PM (#17278772)
It is not bizzare: we are used to do stuff other people cannot think to do...

... Like if it was a superpower.

Superheroes doesn't need advice. At least in the comics I read as a kid.

So this superhero syndrome, hurts more than having no superpower at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by mooreds on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:45AM (#17283453)
Fair enough. I wrote a blog post once about the arrogance of software developers[0]. So I get your point that sometimes because we can do one kind of hard thing, we think we can do most any type of hard thing. But we're wrong.

0. http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/134

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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eeZah7Ux on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:27PM (#17280518)
> stuff other people cannot think to do

What are you talking about?

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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eb0la on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:04AM (#17282370)
A lot if people has trouble with computers, technology, etc.

If you're able to understand or at least start troubleshooting computer relates stuff, you look like you hace a superpower to them.

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