“I'm not smart enough.”
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“I'm not smart enough.”
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#2Precisely. Programming relies heavily on using others' talents and code and abilities.
For example, I wouldn't know how to do face recognition quickly. But thanks to OpenCV and QT, I was able to make https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho
I leveraged the code that was written to allow me to go a tiny bit further.
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#3"I'm not smart enough" is, I think, 50% "I'm too intimidated by what I don't know" and 50% "I don't care enough to overcome the initial learning curve."
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#4When I go to places, I just tell people I'm a garbage man or "waste disposal engineer." That's usually a super quick conversation.
But to your point, engineering is just persistent and consistent effort. Most people don't want to put the time and effort to really learn the science.
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#5When I go to places, I just tell people I'm a garbage man or "waste disposal engineer." That's usually a super quick conversation. But to your point, engineering is just persistent and consistent effort. Most people don't want to put the time and effort to really learn the science.
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#6"I'm not smart enough" is, I think, 50% "I'm too intimidated by what I don't know" and 50% "I don't care enough to overcome the initial learning curve."
Precisely. I wish education was focused on overcoming these two things.
Also, anybody thinks that being smart is mostly the result of removing complexity from your brain ? There's nothing 'more' for you to do or have, but to let the idea sink and reorganize your mind with a simpler thus larger concept.
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#7The thing is, there are definitely different levels of persistence required and that's obvious to most people who struggle. When I was school, I almost never studied, and even skipped class with some regularity. Still got good grades. It just wasn't hard. It didn't take persistence.
Fast forward. Now my wife is in school and she studies like crazy hours every day and still doesn't absorb the material well. It takes her tremendous persistence and she is frustrated by people in her class who, like me, could just roll in having glanced over the material and do well.
That said, I agree with the meat of the article. I used to say "I'm not smart enough" to do things like work at "Big Software Corp" or invent novel algorithms, etc. Now I'm more honest and I'll admit "I'm too lazy" to do those things.
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#8Conversely to the article, I am certainly not smart enough to tell someone how to build their own Facebook or Pinterest. That requires more than programming skill; a combination of marketing, business sense, and user experience.
I'm a backend/appsec guy. No way in hell would I do that. It would be arrogant and end in disaster.
That's what teams are for.
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#10Some are persistent at programming, not looking for programming jobs or kissing up to bad people.