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A comment on Ask HN: How to deal with impostor syndrome when you don't have tech degree?.

Re:Ask HN: How to deal with impostor syndrome when you don't... by x0hm on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:39PM (#20128400)
Whenever I feel like an impostor, I like to go to github and look at other people's code.

Turns out, most of us are pretty bad at this job.

You're a human with a cool brain and an incredible capacity for learning.

Anything you don't know is just an idea whose name you don't know yet.

You're gonna be fine.

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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with impostor syndrome when you don't... by monkeyodeath on Saturday June 08, 2019 @02:18AM (#20130942)
Yeah, I think there's a tendency to assume that everyone else is so much more competent than you are. I have to say that being brought in to fix other people's code has helped a lot in building my confidence as at least a decent engineer.
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