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		thorin on Jan 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engi... I'm never going to be Linus Torvals or John Carmack, so does that make me a 0.001x programmer or them a 1000000x programmer or an ∞x programmer?

Ensorceled on Jan 19, 2023 [–]

Nah, it makes them a 100x. It's a bell curve and it's ok to be near the middle.

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