Comment by renewiltord
1 year ago
These are all small things. Say “just” because sometimes things are “just”. It applies the greedy simplicity approach to problems. This provides a baseline approach for one axis of performance.
Also, everyone who claims impostor syndrome in software is just actually an impostor.
Indeed. For example "Why don't you just use Boyer-Moore or Knuth-Morris-Pratt?" It's straightforward way to say don't reinvent the wheel.
> Also, everyone who claims imposter syndrome in software is just actually an imposter.
Perhaps I misunderstand you here, but that is a frankly astounding claim. Anyone can have a crisis of confidence. It doesn’t mean you’re a fraud.
Claiming impostor syndrome is very different from having a crisis of confidence.