Are Programmers Likely to go Crazy?
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Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy.
Are you a Real Programmer?
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Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy.
Are you a Real Programmer?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. - Edgar Allan Poe
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy.
Are you a Real Programmer?
I don't think Programming causes insanity. I think Insanity causes Programming, at least in my case :)
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Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy.
Are you a Real Programmer?
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One is something known as the "imposter syndrome." That's when you're pretty sure that all the other coders you work with are smarter, more talented and more skilled than you are.
And if you think the other way around - it's normal?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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One is something known as the "imposter syndrome." That's when you're pretty sure that all the other coders you work with are smarter, more talented and more skilled than you are.
And if you think the other way around - it's normal?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
That's Dunning-Kruger[^], and it is pretty common. Especially on Internet fora, assorted TV channels, and pubs.
TTFN - Kent
