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@HelloAndrew @dorward All that needed to be said in technical terms already got said. Let me just add that this is a universal experience. I think I'm a programming language polyglot who knows ~10 programming languages well; I'm a confident sysadmin; and yet I often have to fight a sense of impostor syndrome: I feel like I'm just cobbling together things other people have built and those other people are the real magicians. 5 comments
@Tim_Boettcher @dorward we all know Stephen Fry is no technophobe but even he expressed a similar feeling on his first day here overwhelmed by technical aspects that he did not understand. @chongliss @dorward @HelloAndrew I took my first (very unsteady) programming steps in Python, too, as a 10 y/o boy. (The programs were terrible in every sense of the word.) Also, let me emphasise that to use above script, you do not need to learn Python (even if it could be fun to learn). You just need to run the Python installer and then follow the instructions in the repository/above. @HelloAndrew @Tim_Boettcher Much truth here. The part of my team’s project which needs my specialty isn’t quite ready to have work started on it so I’m working on a different part of the project and have been feeling lost in a forest of new tools that I don’t understand. It’s starting to come together now though. |
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@Tim_Boettcher @dorward i’m really surprised how much this is affecting me emotionally but for the first time in 40 years I feel like a future shock like I’m too old to learn the basics of the world I live in all of a sudden. It’s really quite emotionally upsetting. So I’m very grateful for people trying to help.