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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by Yaa101 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:00AM (#23583222)
In hindsight you can say he suffered from imposter syndrome. People often have trouble to accept that an easy working solution to a difficult problem is an act of genius, instead they feel that they took a shortcut and are non deserving.
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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by ratww on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:28AM (#23583571)
I've seen so many junior developers and interns thinking like this.

Sometimes they're are able to find a good simple solution to a hard problem but then feel bad for not using complex patterns, some popular external dependency, or for the lack of ability of giving it a complicated name.

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